The spellbinding new bestseller in The Vampire Chronicles

'There are times when Anne Rice seems like nothing less than a magician.' - The New York Times Book Review

'Extraordinary... Marvellous... Anne Rice offers more than a just a story, she creates a myth.' - Washington Post Book World

Description

Lestat is back with a vengeance and in thrall to Rowan Mayfair. Both demon and angel, he is drawn to kill but tempted by goodness as he moves among the pantheon of Anne Rice's unforgettable characters: Julien Mayfair, his tormentor; Rowan, witch and neurosurgeon, who attract spirits to herself, cast spells on others and find herself dangerously drawn to Lestat; Patsy, country and western singer, who was killed by Quinn Blackwood and dumped in a swamp; Ash Templeton, a 5,000 years old Taltos whose genes live on in the Mayfairs. Now, Lestat fights to save Patsy's ghost from the Dark realms of the Earthbound, to uncover the mystery of the Taltos and to decide the fate of Rowan Mayfair.

Anne Rice's irresistible realms - the worlds of Blackwood Farm and the Mayfair Witches - collide as Lestat struggles between his lust for blood and the quest for life, between gratification and redemption.

Born in New Orleans in 1941, the second daughter of an Irish Catholic family, Anne Rice is the author of the phenomenally successful Vampire Chronicles, of which Interview with the Vampire was a cult bestseller (and made into a record-breaking film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt). She has written more than twenty novels, including such titles as The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned, The Witching Hour, Lasher and Taltos and Blood Chronicle, to name but a few. After many years in San Francisco, she now lives in New Orleans.

About the author

John Burdett is a former lawyer who worked in Hong Kong until he found his true vocation as a writer. An Englishman by birth, he has lived in France and Spain, and is now back in the Far East. He is the author of A Personal History of Thirst and The Last Six Million Seconds.