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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade Review** '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
