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    The Vengeance of Rome: The Fourth Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet

    By Michael Moorcock and Alan Wall

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateJun 1, 2013
    ISBN9781604868944
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    The Vengeance of Rome: The Fourth Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet
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    Michael Moorcock

    Michael Moorcock is one of the most important and influential figures in speculative fiction and fantasy literature. Listed recently by The Times (London) as among the fifty greatest British writers since 1945, he is the author of 100 books and more than 150 shorter stories in practically every genre. He has been the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards, including the Prix Utopiales, the SFWA Grand Master, the Stoker, and the World Fantasy, and has been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He has been awarded the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. He has been compared to Balzac, Dickens, Dumas, Ian Fleming, Joyce, and Robert E. Howard, to name a few.  

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      At last the finale novel in the 'Colonel Pyat' sequence has arrived after a long wait for Moorcock fans.A deliberately over the top narrative arch involving real people from the early 20th Century collide with the semi-delusional recollections of the main character. The evils of Nazism and Fascism are brought vividly to life but also the sights and smells of the cities of Italy and Germany in the early 1930's. Wonderful fictional characters like the exuberant cockney singer and actress Mrs Cornelius (the mother of Jerry Cornelius, a famous Moorcockian protagonist) mix with Herman Goring, Ernst Rohm, Benito Mussolini and a disturbing cameo from Adolf Hitler himself.But at the centre of course is 'Colonel Pyat,' probably the most unreliable narrator of them all. The ending of this four volume epic is particularly sad and poignant.