Past Imperative: Round One of the Great Game

Duncan, Dave

ISBN 10: 068814361X / ISBN 13: 9780688143619

Published by William Morrow & Co, 1995

About this Item

Avon Books (1995). Hardback. First US edition. Very good condition with clean, unmarked pages and very light wear only to dustjacket. Corner crease to lower, outside corner of opening blank page. Dispatched from UK within three days.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1700147067540

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Past Imperative: Round One of the Great Game
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 068814361X
• ISBN 13: 9780688143619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 895 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sci-Fi

About this title

Synopsis

The great game begins with an oracular testament predicting that two people from very different worlds will come together and share a magic fate. By the author of A Handful of Men. 12,500 first printing.

Review

Edward Exeter, seemingly a golden child of a golden age, has a past spattered with tragedy and blood. His present is marred by the outbreak of the Great War, and it is further stained by the death of his friend, Timothy Bodgley, in circumstances that leave Edward in hospital, implicated as Bodgley's murderer. Strange chains of history and causality tighten on Edward's life: He is the unwilling key figure in an otherworldly prediction of salvation and/or disaster, bound to break the prophecy or fulfill it.