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A 2001 [[Spy Fiction|spy novel]] by [[Tim Powers]], '''''Declare''''' follows British agent Andrew Hale through a covert [[Cold War]] operation with roots in the intricacies of [[The Great Game]] and a distinct supernatural bent. It is written as a [[Secret History]], postulating that there are supernatural events occurring behind the scenes of otherwise-mundane occurrancesoccurrences. At its center: he British spy and defector, Kim Philby, and his links with the djinn...

Powers has acknowledged that much of the novel was influenced by the works of [[John Le Carre]], while the supernatural occurrancesoccurrences have a distinct [[H.P. Lovecraft|Lovecraftian]] flavour to them. See also [[Charles Stross]]'s ''[[The Laundry Series|Laundry]]'' novels; in the afterword of the first novel Stross admits the similarities--the Stale Beer-flavoured spy fiction, and the secret knowledge of the supernatural--but notes that they are coincidental.