Book description
In 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. Tom Holland lives in London.
