I've read most of Powers' other books and liked them, but none hit quite the same. Declare had a gritty majesty to it with the geopolitics, the others had a bit

I've read most of Powers' other books and liked them, but none hit quite the same. Declare had a gritty majesty to it with the geopolitics, the others had a bit too much of the fantastic about them. Too obviously stories to fit the history, rather than... history turned into a story, I guess? The spy angle really lent itself to his writing, for me. O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?