'Byron: A Life in Ten Letters' Review: The Regency's Rakish Rock Star

Re:'Byron: A Life in Ten Letters' Review: The Regency's Raki... by jhbadger on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:14AM (#39467336)

Depends on what you want from a book "like Declare". While it isn't about spies, Powers' "Last Call" is basically "Declare" only about the early mob-run history of Las Vegas as the background instead of the Cold War.

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Re:'Byron: A Life in Ten Letters' Review: The Regency's Raki... by sonofhans on Thursday February 22, 2024 @12:56PM (#39470673)

“Last Call” is amazing. I’ve read it 3 times, and I swear, the last 150 pages are still some of the most intense I’ve encountered.

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Re:'Byron: A Life in Ten Letters' Review: The Regency's Raki... by amenhotep on Thursday February 22, 2024 @08:47PM (#39475884)

I've read most of Powers' other books and liked them, but none hit quite the same. Declare had a gritty majesty to it with the geopolitics, the others had a bit too much of the fantastic about them. Too obviously stories to fit the history, rather than... history turned into a story, I guess? The spy angle really lent itself to his writing, for me.

O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?

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