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The Vengeance of Rome (Pyat Quartet 4) (Paperback)

by Michael Moorcock (Author)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (4 Jan 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099488825
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099488828
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 4.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 265,661 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A chaotically complex novel


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Born in Ukraine on the first day of the century, a Jewish anti-Semite, 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 Rohm, 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 Fuhrer's friends call him. Pyat's extraordinary luck leaves him after he witnesses Hitler's massacre of Rohm 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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This should be recognised for the classic work that it is..., 15 Nov 2008
By S. Green (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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It's almost criminal that the Colonel Pyat quartet isn't recognised as a classic of late 20th century English literature, which is what it surely is. I admit I was a late returnee to Michael Moorcock. Having read many of his fantasy books in the early to mid seventies I felt I'd "outgrown" him when I moved on to what was considered more serious literature. Since then his has not been a name that I've sought out because I associated it solely with that kind of book - and I suspect that other readers, and possibly even professional reviewers have done the same. I had my own eyes opened when by chance I stumbled on Mother London, a fantastic work of fiction that by anyone else would have been acclaimed as a masterpiece. I followed this with King of the City, another amazing work. Neither of these books have anything remotely to do with Michael's works of "fantasy", and yet they are probably by many readers lumped in with them and subsequently ignored, which is a huge pity because people are missing so much. Then I came to the Pyat quartet and I was staggered. How Michael isn't acclaimed as a living giant of English literature I shall never understand. How someone can put so much wit and imagination, let alone effort into this huge body of work which adds an all too human perspective to the events of the first half of the 20th century that shaped the world that we live in to this day, and yet be comparitively unrecognised as a "serious" author is an enduring shame.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent!, 21 Oct 2008
By H. W. GOUGH-COOPER "herdsman" (Dunscore, Dumfries, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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A suitably dark and devastating conclusion to this magnificent quartet, with the odious anti-hero Pyat finally revealed in all his loathsome self-deception.
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