Declare by Tim Powers
reviewed by Nick Gevers
All the qualities that made his earlier eldritch swashbucklers so impressive are here in full measure: an intense and intimate sense of period or realization of milieu; taut plotting, with human development and destiny as consequential as the ingenuities of concept for which the author is so famous; and, looming above all, an awareness of history itself as a merciless turning of supernatural wheels, as a play of shadows cast by huge, heinous otherworldly conspiracies. And this time the conspiracy is that of the rebel angels, and the shadow cast is the Cold War.

Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers
reviewed by Neil Walsh
Powers has a knack for establishing rules of weirdness that make enough occult-logical sense that you just come to accept them. This novel assumes that you're already familiar with Last Call and Expiration Date. If you're not, you may find yourself struggling to keep up.