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The
Vampire Armand finished with a tantalising moment —
the Vampire Lestat rising from the dead in present-day New
Orleans to walk again among Anne Rice's unforgettable undead.
Now Lestat lives again but in a twilight world of music and
memory.
In
this dazzling new volume of the Vampire Chronicles it is Lestat's
charismatic friend and coeval Louis de Pointe du Lac (originating
in eighteenth-century France and Interview with the Vampire
and now at home in present-day New Orleans) who takes centre
stage, tortured by the memory of the child vampire Claudia,
whom he loved and lost.
With
the help of David Talbot, ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca
organisation, Louis appeals to Merrick, the beautiful mixed-race
daughter of the New Orleans Mayfair clan — from the wrong
side of the tracks. To save Louis' sanity, Merrick must use
her black witchcraft to call up the ghost of Claudia —
however dangerous this may be. But there are other spirits
who will not lie still, and her search takes her close to
the edge, through blood and terror, voodoo and violence.
Sweeping
from New Orleans to the Brazilian jungle, this is vampire
literature at its most thrilling, seductive and superb.
Source:
Merrick jacket cover
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