Meet Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, also known as Pyat. Tsarist rebel, Nazi thug, continental conman, and reactionary counterspy: the dark and dangerous anti-hero of Michael Moorcockâs most controversial work Published in 1981 to great critical acclaimâthen condemned to the shadows and unavailable in the U.S. for thirty yearsâByzantium Endures, the first of the Pyat Quartet, is not a book for the faint-hearted. Itâs the story of a cocaine addict, sexual adventurer, and obsessive anti-Semite whose epic journey from Leningrad to London connects him with scoundrels and heroes from Trotsky to Makhno, and whose career echoes that of the 20th centuryâs descent into Fascism and total war. This is Moorcock at his audacious, iconoclastic best: a grand sweeping overview of the events of the last century, as revealed in the secret journals of modern literatureâs most proudly unredeemable outlaw. This authoritative U.S. edition presents the authorâs final cut, restoring previously forbidden passages and deleted scenes
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