{"product_id":"vengeance-of-rome-the-fourth-volume-of-the-colonel-pyat-quartet-paperback","title":"Vengeance of Rome: The Fourth Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Moorcock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlan Wall\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eByzantium Endures\u003c\/em\u003e, the first volume of Michael Moorcock's legendary Pyat Quartet, appeared in 1981. \u003cem\u003eThe Laughter of Carthage\u003c\/em\u003e (1984) and \u003cem\u003eJerusalem Commands\u003c\/em\u003e (1992) followed. Now the quartet is complete. Pyat keeps his appointment with the age's worst nightmare.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBorn in Ukraine on the first day of the century, a Jewish antisemite, Pyat careered through three decades like a runaway train. Bisexual, cocaine-loving engineer\/inventor\/spy, he enthusiastically embraces Fascism. Hero-worshipping Mussolini, he enters the dictator's circle, enjoys a close friendship with Mussolini's wife and is sent by the Duce on a secret mission to Munich, becoming intimate with Ernst Röhm, the homosexual stormtrooper leader. His crucial role in the Nazi Party's struggle for power has him performing perverted sex acts with \"Alf,\" as the Führer's friends call him.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePyat's extraordinary luck leaves him after he witnesses Hitler's massacre of Röhm and the SA. At last he is swallowed up in Dachau concentration camp. Thirty years later, having survived the Spanish Civil War, he is living in Portobello Road and telling his tale to a writer called Moorcock.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis authoritative edition presents this work for the first time in the United States, along with a new introduction by Alan Wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Moorcock\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning author of more than 80 works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Cornelius Quartet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDoctor Who\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Elric: The Stealer of Souls\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received the Nebula, World Fantasy, and British Science Fiction Awards and is a Grandmaster of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. His nonfiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Bastrop, Texas. \u003cb\u003eAlan Wall\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, a short story writer, a poet, an essayist, and a professor of writing and literature at the University of Chester. His novels include \u003ci\u003eBless the Thief\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e China\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Lightning Cage\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The School of Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSylvie's Riddle\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 608\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770843562272,"sku":"9781604864946","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/040f626058f61251680cb5c9eada32e6.webp?v=1780379306","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/vengeance-of-rome-the-fourth-volume-of-the-colonel-pyat-quartet-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}