Byzantium Endures: The First Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet
"A tour de force, and an extraordinary one. Mr. Moorcock has created in Pyatnitski a wholly sympathetic and highly complicated rogue . . . . There is much vigorous action here, along with a depth and an intellectuality, and humor and color and wit as well." —The New Yorker“What is extraordinary about this novel . . . is the largeness of the design. Moorcock has the bravura of a 19th-century novelist: he takes risks, he uses fiction as if it were a divining rod for the age’s most significant concerns. Here, inByzantium Endures, he has taken possession of the early 20th century, of a strange, dead civilization and recast them in a form which is highly charged without ceasing to be credible.” —Peter Ackroyd,Sunday Times"While others build fictional molehills, Mr. Moorcock makes plans for great shimmering pyramids. But the footings of this particular edifice are intriguing and audacious enough to leave one hungry for more." —John Naughton,Listener"It is a comic novel, though not a comedic one, utilizing the tropes and techniques of both modern farce and classical Commedia dell'Arte." —www.lit.NewCity.com"Novels that teach history by telling the life story of an individual can be fascinating journeys into humanity's misadventures. Likewise, they can also be equally tragic and entertaining. One books that fits all of these adjectives and more is Michael Moorcock'sByzantium Endures." —www.CounterPunch.org