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.

There have been few novelists who have risen above the orthodox categories of fiction... to produce something as expansive and elaborate as this' - Peter Ackroyd, Sunday Times

About the Author
Michael Moorcock has written more than eighty books, fiction and non-fiction, including The Cornelius Quartet, Gloriana, Mother London and the legendary Pyat Quartet: Byzantium Endures, The Laughter of Carthage, Jerusalem Commands and The Vengeance of Rome. He is also the author of The Condition of Muzak which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and Mother London, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. He lives in France and Texas.

Reviews
[There are] those of us who have buttonholed strangers on the Underground and raved about Moorcock's masterpieces Byzantium Endures and The Laughter of Carthage * Sunday Telegraph *
His is the grand, messy flux itself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things. Posterity will certainly give him that due place in English literature -- Angela Carter * Guardian *



Book Information
ISBN 9780099485124
Author Michael Moorcock
Format Paperback
Page Count 592
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 406g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 36mm