Vengeance of Rome: The Fourth Volume of the Colonel Pyat Quartet (Colonel Pyat Quartet, 4)

ISBN: 160486494X

Author: Moorcock, Michael

Condition: New

Byzantium Endures, the first volume of Michael Moorcocks legendary Pyat Quartet, appeared in 1981. The Laughter of Carthage (1984) and Jerusalem Commands (1992) followed. Now the quartet is complete. Pyat keeps his appointment with the ages worst nightmare.Born in Ukraine on the first day of the century, a Jewish antisemite, 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 dictators circle, enjoys a close friendship with Mussolinis wife and is sent by the Duce on a secret mission to Munich, becoming intimate with Ernst Rhm, the homosexual stormtrooper leader. His crucial role in the Nazi Partys struggle for power has him performing perverted sex acts with Alf, as the Fhrers friends call him.Pyats extraordinary luck leaves him after he witnesses Hitlers massacre of Rhm 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.This authoritative edition presents this work for the first time in the United States, along with a new introduction by Alan Wall.