Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles

A stunning departure a surprising and compelling returnhellipFrom Anne Rice perennial best seller single-handed reinventor of the vampire cosmology--a new exhilarating novel a deepening of her vampire mythology and a chillingly hypnotic mystery-thrillerWhat can we do but reach for the embrace that must nowcontain both heaven and hell our doom again and again andagainhellip --fromThe Vampire LestatRice once again summons up the irresistible spirit-world of the oldest and most powerful forces of the night invisible beings unleashed on an unsuspecting world able to take blood from humans in a long-awaited return to the extraordinary world of the Vampire Chronicles and the uniquely seductiveQueen of the Damnedmesmerizing --San Francisco Chronicle a long-awaited novel that picks up whereThe Vampire Lestatbrillianthellipits undead characters are utterly alive --New York Times left off more than a quarter of a century ago to create an extraordinary new world of spirits and forces--the characters legend and lore of all the Vampire ChroniclesThe novel opens with the vampire world in crisishellipvampires have been proliferating out of control burnings have commenced all over the world huge massacres similar to those carried out by Akasha inThe Queen of the DamnedhellipOld vampires roused from slumber in the earth are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities from Paris and Mumbai to Hong Kong Kyoto and San FranciscoAs the novel moves from present-day New York and the West Coast to ancient Egypt fourth century Carthage th-century Rome the Venice of the Renaissance the worlds and beings of all the Vampire Chronicles-Louis de Pointe du Lac the eternally young Armand whose face is that of a Boticelli angel Mekare and Maharet Pandora and Flavius David Talbot vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca and Marius the true Child of the Millennia along with all the other new seductive supernatural creatures-come together in this large luxuriant fiercely ambitious novel to ultimately rise up and seek out who-or what-the Voice is and to discover the secret of what it desires and whyhellipAnd at the books center the seemingly absent curiously missing hero-wanderer the dazzling dangerous rebel-outlaw--the great hope of the Undead the dazzling Prince Lestathellip.