This tetralogy delves into the turbulent period between the World Wars, exploring complex human relationships and moral dilemmas. It follows the journeys of characters striving to find their place in a world shaken by political upheaval and personal drama. The series offers a profound look at human nature and societal shifts, all wrapped in compelling storytelling. It's a narrative of survival, love, and loss during one of modern history's most tumultuous eras.
Byzantium Endures, the first of the Pyat Quartet, introduces one of Michael Moorcock's most magnificent creations - Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski. Born in Kiev on the cusp of the twentieth century, he discovers the pleasures of sex and cocaine and glimpses a sophisticated world beyond his horizons before the storm of the October Revolution breaks.
Via a series of crises, self-hating Jew and cocaine addict Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, also known as Pyat, makes his way from 1919 Bolshevik Russia to a Hollywood on the rise. Reissue.
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.
The fourth and final volume of the legendary Pyat Quartet. Hero-worshipping Mussolini, he enters the dictator's circle, enjoys a close friendship with Mussolini's wife and is sent by the Duce on a secret mission to Munich, becoming intimate with Ernst Roehm, the homosexual stormtrooper leader.