In 1888 Dr John Eliot returns to London haunted by the memory of a terrible expedition to a remote Himalayan kingdom, where he had uncovered horrors far beyond the frontiers of science. Yet Eliot’s faith in reason is to be tested even further when the body of a friend, drained white of blood, is dragged up from the Thames, and another associate goes missing. Eliot’s quest to uncover the mystery reveals a deadly conspiracy, but then, in the lair of an enigmatic Eastern adventuress, he glimpses hints of a truth yet more extraordinary, of dark and terrible pleasures, of a whole new world …
Vampires and immortals walk the gas-lit streets of Victorian London, mingling with Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker and Lord Byron, and Tom Holland meshes fact with fiction in this brilliantly imaginative novel of passion and suspense.
- ‘Goes at a cracking pace with its wit, superb sense of humour and literary cross-references’ SCOTSMAN
- ‘A ripping yarn’ INDEPENDENT
- ‘Meticulous about literary and historical accuracy - scarily bright’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
- ‘Charged with an authentic poetic force’ PUBLISHING NEWS
- 'A brilliant, new fin-de-siecle vampire mystery.' BOOKSELLER
- '... oozing atmospgere and dripping with menace.' YORKSHIRE POST
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£10.99
Published 06/11/2008