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I like tours-de-force. I like when authors pull out all the stops to write something mind-boggling. The Quincunx is a tour-de-force of Victoriana. Time and again, I thought I was reading Charles Dickens. Palliser's literary style is so accurate, I could not detect a single anachronism. And I also love the recreation of past cultures. I found this book to be a field guide to the lifestyles of the 19th-century
An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary—a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog-enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th century—London itself.
“So compulsively absorbing that reality disappears . . . One is swept along by those enduring emotions that defy modern art and a random universe: hunger for revenge, longing for justice and the fantasy secretly entertained by most people that the bad will be punished and the good rewarded.”—The New York Times
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
I'm crazy about historical fiction. I especially like when I'm shown history I don't know already. I always thought Alexander the Great won all his battles. But Tyrant portrays one he lost. Or that his general, Zopyrion, lost, against an alliance of Greeks and Scythians. Tyrant taught me about the culture of the Scythians and also of the Black Sea Greek colonies. I like books that aren't cut and dry, good guys vs. bad guys, and Tyrant is not. This book depicts many different factions plotting and vying, changing loyalties from day to day, factions of mercenaries, Greeks, Scythians, aristocrats, townspeople, Macedonians, each with their own conflicting motivations. Thus, I found it to have a more satisfyingly complex plot than the usual story of ancient swordplay.
Glory. Death. Well-born Athenian cavalry officer, Kineas, fought shoulder to shoulder with Alexander in his epic battles against the Persian hordes. But on his return from the east to his native city, he finds not glory but shame - and exile.
With nothing to his name but his military skills, Kineas agrees to lead a band of veterans to the city of Olbia, where the Tyrant is offering good money to train the city's elite cavalry. But soon Kineas and his men find they have stumbled into a deadly maze of intrigue and conspiracy as the…
