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Description edit
What does the famous Herzwesten beer have to do with saving the entire western world from the invading Turkish armies? Brian Duffy, aging soldier of fortune, is the only man who can rescue the world from evil--if only he can figure out why the beer was so important to a mysterious old man... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Brian Duffy: Add a description of this character.
- Bluto
- Bugge
- Anna
- Werner
- Piff
- Ibrahim
- Salm
- Kretchmer
- Yount
- Arthur
- Ludvig
- Zimmermann
- Sigmund
- Suleiman
- Fenn
- Charles
- Merlin
- Giacomo Gritti
- Stein
- Turk
- Vogel
- Becky
- Marko
- Mothertongue
- Tomori
- Surter
- John Zapolya
- Bobo
- Vertot
- Good God
- Mrs. Hallstadt
- Antoku
- Herzwesten
- Eilif
Setting & Locations edit
- Vienna
- Venice
- Irishman
- Trieste
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Mohacs
- Constantinople
- St. Stephen
- Austria
- Good Lord
- Calad Bolg
- Dark
- Freiburg
- Europe
First Sentence edit
With almost ludicrous care the old man carried the pitcher of beer across the sunlit room toward the still older man who reclined propped up in a bed by the window.
Table of Contents edit
PROLOGUE
All Hallow's Eve, 1529
BOOK ONE
BOOK TWO
BOOK THREE
EPILOGUE
October Fourteenth
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Significant Speculative Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror). (community list)
This is book 34 of 37 in Millennium/Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks. (edition-based publisher list)
Preceded by The House on the Borderland and Other Novels, and followed by Lyonesse II & III.
This book is in Hopeless Romantic. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Tim Powers (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1979
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Page Count: 323
Publisher: Add the publisher.
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Publication Date: 1979
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Page Count: 323
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- Dewey: 813.54
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