The Vampire Chronicles - Book 11
Prince Lestat
“With this novel, we can all rejoice that Brat Prince Lestat has returned—and he couldn’t have been called from his exile at a more pressing time. The entire vampire world has descended into bloody massacres and the madness of destruction. Many of Rice’s hallmark characters return in this novel, but make no mistake: Prince Lestat is no quiet swan song. It ripples with suspense and excitement.”
Barnes&Noble.com, editorial review
A stunning departure, a surprising and compelling return from Anne Rice, perennial bestseller, single-handed reinventor of the vampire cosmology-a new, exhilarating novel, a deepening of her vampire mythology, and a chillingly hypnotic mystery-thriller
Rice once again summons up the irresistible spirit world of the oldest and most powerful forces of the night, invisible beings unleashed on an unsuspecting world able to take blood from humans, in a long-awaited return to the extraordinary world of the Vampire Chronicles and the uniquely seductive Queen of the Damned, a long-awaited novel that picks up where The Vampire Lestat left off more than a quarter of a century ago to create an extraordinary new world of spirits and forces-the characters, legend, and lore of all the Vampire Chronicles.
The novel opens with the vampire world in crisis: vampires have been proliferating out of control; burnings have commenced all over the world, huge massacres similar to those carried out by Akasha in The Queen of the Damned. Old vampires, roused from slumber in the earth, are doing the bidding of a voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities from Paris and Mumbai to Hong Kong, Kyoto, and San Francisco.
As the novel moves from present-day New York and the West Coast to ancient Egypt, fourth-century Carthage, fourteenth-century Rome, the Venice of the Renaissance, the worlds and beings of all the Vampire Chronicles-Louis de Pointe du Lac; the eternally young Armand, whose face is that of a Boticelli angel; Mekare and Maharet; Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca; and Marius, the true Child of the Millennia; along with all the other new seductive, supernatural creatures-come together in this large, luxuriant, fiercely ambitious novel to ultimately rise up and seek out who-or what-the voice is and to discover the secret of what it desires and why.
And at the book's center is the seemingly absent, curiously missing hero-wanderer, the dazzling, dangerous rebel-outlaw-the great hope of the undead, the dazzling Prince Lestat.
Praise