Byzantium Endures, one of the first of the Pyat series of novels, Introduces one of Michael Moorcock's most magnificent creations — Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski. Born in Kiev on the cusp of the twentieth century he discovers the pleasures of sex and cocaine and glimpses a sophisticated world beyond his horizons before the storm of the October Revolution breaks. Still a student at St Petersburg, he is deflected into more immediate concerns, caught up in the rip-tide of history.