It is 1900, the dawn of a new century. Even as the old Queen's health fails, Victorian Britain stands monumental and strong upon a mountain of technological, scientific, and intellectual progress. For John Kemp, a straight-forward, unimaginative London lawyer, life seems reassuringly predictable yet forward-leaning, that is, until a foray into the recently published sensationalist novel Dracula, united with a chance meeting with an eccentric Dominican friar, catapults him into a bizarre, violent, and unsettling series of events.As London is transfixed with terror at a bloody trail of murder and destruction, Kemp finds himself in its midst, besieged on all sides-in his friendships, as those close to him fall prey to vicious assault by an unknown assassin; in his deep attraction to an unconventional American heiress; and in his own professional respectability, for who can trust a lawyer who sees things which, by all sane reason, cannot exist? Can his mundane, sensible life-and his skeptical mind-withstand vampires? Can this everyday Englishman survive his encounter with perhaps an even more sinister threat-the white-robed Papists who claim to be vampire slayers?
ISBN: | 9781621642060 |
Publisher: | Ignatius Press |
Imprint: | Ignatius Press |
Published date: | 08 Jul 2018 |
DEWEY: | 813.6 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 435 |
Weight: | 482g |
Height: | 137mm |
Width: | 203mm |
Spine width: | 27mm |