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The third novel of the Pyat quartet finds Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski scheming his way from New York to Hollywood, Cairo to Marrakesh. He finds cult success as a star of the silver screen winning and breaking many hearts along the way, mixing with characters good and bad, real and unreal. But everything he does with panache as he makes his way to an appointment with the twentieth century's blackest moment. Book four of the Pyat quartet is in preparation. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The third novel of the "Pyat" quartet finds Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski scheming his way from New York to Hollywood, Cairo to Marrakesh, from cult success to the utter limits of sexual degradation, leaving a trail of mechanical and human wreckage as he crashes towards an appointment with the worst nightmare of this century.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: Three down and one to go, 24 April 2003 By  "frenchylefou" - See all my reviews This review is from: Jerusalem Commands (Colonel Pyat) (Paperback) This is my second reread of the whole Colonel Pyat series and I know I could cheerfully go back and start again, only I'm waiting for the last volume The Vengeance of Rome which, rumor has it, is at the publisher and awaiting a release date. Pyat is a monster, a racist, a sexist, a Jew and a bi-sexual who is definitely in denial. Somehow, though, you cannot help liking him. You hate yourself sometimes for being sympathetic. He is like a friend who has no virtues and yet you are forever forgiving him. In this book he betrays his lady friend to an Egyptian slave-trader/pornographer, he betrays his best friend to a bunch of rascally bandits in the Sahara and he betrays the one Jew who helps him in Morocco, where he has, he claims, built a fleet of experimental aircraft for the Caid. So why do we go on hoping he will escape the consequences of his crimes ? To be honest, it's hard to say. What is easy to say is that you just do. You can't help it. Pyat is one of the most magnificent characters of our time and represents our times, as Moorcock says he intended him to, in a dozen ways. The theme of the four books is 'how did we come to the Nazi holocaust'? Moorcock suggests we all, to some degree, conspired in this most ghastly crime. This is a complex work of literature which many now believe might well be one of the most important works of its period. It is astonishing in its breadth and its detail. It will absorb you in a way few modern novels can.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   5 of 6 people found the following review helpful: Colonel Pyat, racist bigot or just mis-understood?, 8 Jun 2001 By A Customer This review is from: Jerusalem Commands (Colonel Pyat) (Paperback) You cannot help but picture Michael Moorcock stalking through Ladbroke Grove looking for his Colonel Pyat, much like his other characters search for the Golden Barge. This is the third volume of Pyat memoires and I find myself ever wondering whether to question the sanity of Pyat, or Moorcock, or even myself as we are taken through a saga of wonderful episodes of twists and turns. Upon consideration, I think that I would cross Ladbroke Grove to avoid Colonel Pyat. In summary not as good as the first two books but I can't wait for the fourth.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   7 of 9 people found the following review helpful: AN EXTRAORDINARY WORK OF NARRATIVE IMAGINATION, 20 Nov 2000 By A Customer This review is from: Jerusalem Commands (Hardcover) This is the third novel in the Pyat sequence, which takes its hero from Ukraine 1900 to the Nazi death camps. The fourth novel The Vengeance of Rome is supposed to be out next year some time. I can't wait. Moorcock says he set out to write a book which dealt with the moral, social and psychological roots of the Nazi Holocaust in Europe, the near East and America. So far he's given us Europe, America and Egypt -- and Jerusalem Commands has some of the most stunning writing, some of the most extraordinary scenes you have ever read in fiction. As in Brothel in Rosenstrasse, but on a far more complex and even more emotionally powerful level, he links the lust for power and sex and gives us a far more complex and subtle picture than say the J.G.Ballard of Crash. These two writers were colleagues and friends and their work has much in common, but Moorcock has a humanity and a lack of sexism which Ballard sadly lacks and in the end he is the greater novelist. But Moorcock, Ballard, Harrison, Sinclair and others remain the core of real, robust, enduring English fiction and this is one of the very best examples of their school.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 4 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews