The Violent Century - Hardcover

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Praise for THE VIOLENT CENTURY: "Pack your bags and go home; the superhero genre is now completed... if John le Carre wrote a superhero novel about the Cold War, it "might" be this good."
- Charles Stross, author of "Neptune's Brood: A Space Opera"
"A stunning masterpiece" - "The Independent""" "Like "Watchmen" on crack." -- "IO9" "Tidhar synthesises the geeky and the political in a vision of world events that breaks new superhero ground ..." - "The Guardian" "He's dealing with the grandest schemes on the largest of backdrops in time and place... no longer an emerging writer, but a master." - "British Fantasy Society" "It's the X-Men as written by John le Carre ... A love story and meditation on heroism, this is an elegiac espionage adventure that demands a second reading." - "Metro (UK)" "The sort of thing Quentin Tarantino did as bloody wish-fulfillment in Inglourious Basterds, multiplied by several orders of magnitude." - "Locus"

Praise for THE VIOLENT CENTURY:

- Charles Stross, author of "Neptune's Brood: A Space Opera"

"A stunning masterpiece" - "The Independent"

"He's dealing with the grandest schemes on the largest of backdrops in time and place... no longer an emerging writer, but a master." - "British Fantasy Society"

"It's the X-Men as written by John le Carre ... A love story and meditation on heroism, this is an elegiac espionage adventure that demands a second reading." - "Metro (UK)"

"The sort of thing Quentin Tarantino did as bloody wish-fulfillment in Inglourious Basterds, multiplied by several orders of magnitude." - "Locus"

"Tidhar synthesises the geeky and the political in a vision of world events that breaks new superhero ground " - "The Guardian""

"It's the X-Men as written by John le Carre A love story and meditation on heroism, this is an elegiac espionage adventure that demands a second reading." - "Metro (UK)""

Pack your bags and go home; the superhero genre is now completed... if John le Carre wrote a superhero novel about the Cold War, it "might" be this good.--Charles Stross, author of Neptune's Brood: A Space Opera

Reseña del editor

They never meant to be heroes.

For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart.

But there must always be an account...and the past has a habit of catching up to the present.

Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one can retire, Fogg and Oblivion must face up to a past of terrible war and unacknowledged heroism, - a life of dusty corridors and secret rooms, of furtive meetings and blood-stained fields - to answer one last, impossible question:

What makes a hero?