EMPIRE OF FEAR PA

In an epic novel the Washington Post called #xE2;#xAC;Sriveting,#xE2;#xAC; 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 years#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;moving 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 #xE2;#xAC;Sturn[ed] the typical vampire story on its ear#xE2;#xAC; when it was published, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.