

Andrew Hale, an Oxford lecturer who first entered Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service as an 18-year-old schoolboy, is called back to finish a job that culminated in a deadly mission on Mount Ararat after the end of World War II. En route, Tim Powers covers a lot of territory: Turkey, Armenia, the Saudi Arabian desert, Beirut, London, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow. But like the chicken crossing the road, it takes quite a while to get to the other side.

This supernatural suspense thriller crosses several genres-espionage, geopolitics, religion, fantasy.
