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Libro 5 de 5: Danilov Quintet

Kent, Jasper

 
9780593069554: The Last Rite

Sinopsis

Russia - 1917. Zmyeevich, king of all vampires, is dead. History records that the great voordalak - known across Europe as Dracula - perished in 1893 beneath the ramparts of his own castle, deep in the mountains of Wallachia. In Russia, the Romanov tsars are free of the curse that has plagued their blood for two centuries. But two decades later and Tsar Nicholas II faces a new threat - a threat from his own people. War has brought Russia to her knees and the people are hungry for change. Revolution is in the air. Mihail Konstantinovich Danilov - who himself carries Romanov blood - welcomes the prospect of a new regime. Like his ancestors he once fought to save the Romanovs from the threat that Zmyeevich brought them. Fought and won. But now he sees no future for a Russia ruled by a tyrant. He is joined in the struggle by his uncle, Dmitry Alekseevich - a creature born in a different era, over a century before. For more than half his existence he has been a vampire, and yet he still harbours one very human desire; that his country should be free. But the curse that infects the blood of the Romanovs cannot be so easily forgotten and Mihail soon discovers that it - that he - may become the means by which a terror once thought eradicated might be resurrected...

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Jasper Kent was born in Worcestershire in 1968, studied Natural Sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and now lives in Hove, East Sussex.

As well as writing The Danilov Quintet (his internationally acclaimed sequence of historical horror novels set in Russia) Jasper works as a freelance software consultant. He has also written several musicals.

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‘Men will die tonight, whatever you tell us. Their throats will be ripped open and their bodies drained of blood. I may abstain, but I can’t stop the others – not all of them. It will ease your conscience to know that those who died were our enemies . . .’

Russia, 1917. Zmyeevich, king of all vampires, has been dead for twenty years.

Free of the evil that plagued his family, Tsar Nicholas II faces a new threat. War has brought Russia to her knees. The people are hungry for revolution.

Mihail Konstantinovich Danilov welcomes the prospect of change. Like his ancestors, he fought to save the Romanovs from Zmyeevich and his kind - fought and won - but he sees no future for Russia under a tyrannical tsar. He is not alone. His uncle, Dmitry Alekseevich, was born in a different era. He is a vampire, yet he still harbours one very human desire: that his country should be free.

But the curse that infects the blood of the Romanovs cannot be easily forgotten, and Mihail discovers that a terror once thought eradicated might soon rise again . . .

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9780857501066: The Last Rite: (The Danilov Quintet 5)

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ISBN 10:  0857501062 ISBN 13:  9780857501066
Editorial: Bantam, 2015
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