In an epic novel the Washington Post called riveting,” Brian Stableford brilliantly imagines a world ruled by a powerful aristocracy of vampires: long-lived, extraordinarily handsome humans who are immune to pain but must drink the blood of their common subjects. The story begins in seventeenth-century London and spans three hundred yearsmoving from England to the heart of Africa, to Malta, and finally to the New World. Edmund Cordery, Mechanician to the court of Richard Coeur-de-Lion, believes that vampire beings must have a natural explanation. But when his discoveries make him dangerous in the eyes of his masters, Edmund entrusts his learned secrets to his son, Noell, who in turn becomes a fugitive. When he returns to Europe he faces the awesome might of Coeur-de-Lion and the infamous Vlad the Impaler. This classic has been translated into five languages and turn[ed] the typical vampire story on its ear” when it was published, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
- ISBN10 1616082631
- ISBN13 9781616082635
- Publish Date 16 June 2011 (first published 17 October 1988)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Skyhorse Publishing
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 400
- Language English