Book description
It was 1882 when Antoinette Giry, Maitresse du Corps de Ballet at the
Paris Opera House, took her small daughter to the funfair at Neuilly.
And there, in a cage, she saw a filthy manacled creature whose
tormented eyes shone from a grotesquely deformed face. It was
Antoinette Giry who saved him, freed him, cured his wounds and finally
let him find a dwelling place in the labyrinthine depths of the Opera
House. The creature - Erik - whose hideous face hid a brilliant brain
of near-genius, was to become the Phantom of the Opera - magician,
artists, musician, and lover. When he tried to lure the object of his
adoration to his underground domain - it was to end in tragedy.
It was Madame Giry who saved him once more, set him on a ship to the
New World - and there Erik Muhlheim began a new and secret life, a
life that began in misery and poverty but in which his incredible
skills finally carved out an unexpected kingdom of power. And there it
was he learned again of Christine, whose life had changed dramatically
since that night in the Paris Opera House.
Inevitably, their paths must cross again in the old sequence of
tragedy and triumph.
The Phantom, one of the most mysterious and romantic figures ever
created, soars again in a world of his own making. Frederick Forsyth's
magnificent and evocative story adds a new dimension to the legend of
the Phantom.
Frederick Forsyth is the author of ten bestselling novels:
The Day
of the Jackal
,
The Odessa File
,
The Dogs of War
,
The Devil's Alternative
,
The Fourth Protocol
,
The Negotiator
,
The Deceiver
,
The Fist of God
,
Icon
and
Avenger
. His other works include
The Biafra Story
,
The Shepherd
, two short story collections,
No Comebacks
and
The Veteran
, and a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera,
The Phantom of Manhattan
. He has also collected together an anthology of flying tales,
Great
Flying Stories
, which includes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Roald Dahl, Len
Deighton and H. G. Wells. He lives in Hertfordshire, England.
