Vengeance of Rome, The: The Fourth in the Colonel Pyat Quartet (Colonel Pyat Quartet, 4) - Softcover

Michael Moorcock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160486494X ISBN 13: 9781604864946

Publisher: PM PRESS, 2013

Synopsis

Michael Moorcock's most infamous antihero continues his epic and hilariously distasteful escapades in this fantastic fourth installment of the Pyat quartet. Picking up where "Jerusalem Commands" left off, bisexual, cocaine-loving, Jewish anti-Semite Pyat enthusiastically embraces Fascism and manages to insinuate himself into Mussolini's inner circle. Sent by the fascist dictator on a secret mission to Munich, he becomes embroiled in Nazi Party intrigue and ultimately finds himself in the Dachau concentration camp. Thirty years later, having incredibly survived both Dachau and the Spanish Civil War, Pyat's tale winds down as he recounts his adventures to a writer named Moorcock. From Pyat's friendships with murderous dictators to his perverted sex acts with Nazi storm troopers, this book serves up a deliciously iconoclastic feast for fans of speculative fiction.

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Review:

"Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy flux itself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things. Posterity will certainly give him that due place in the English literature of the late twentieth century which his more anaemic contemporaries grudge; indeed he is so prolific it will probably look as though he has written most of it anyway." --Angela Carter, Guardian

"A final, breath-stopping moment of deeply ironic self-delusion at the end of a grandiose, beautifully modulated quartet." --Scotland on Sunday

"Of Moorcock's characters . . . it is Colonel Pyat who is the richest, the deepest, the most complex, and who casts the strongest and most penetrating light on the century we erroneously believe we have left behind." --Charles Shaar Murray, Independent

"The Vengeance of Rome comes along to remind us of what we have been missing: the dynamism of a nineteenth-century master operating with all of the darts and shuffles of our electronic, amnesiac, fast-twitch culture." --Iain Sinclair, The Spectator

"A wonderfully vivid evocation of Europe in its darkest hour." --Mail on Sunday

From the Publisher:

The final title in the legendary Pyat Quartet but also a magnificent stand alone book chronicling some of the major events in history with Moorcock's characteristic style and wit

About this edition

• Publisher: PM PRESS
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 160486494X
• ISBN 13: 9781604864946
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560