The Tale of the Body Thief

Chronicles of the vampires -- 4

Hardcover, 430 pages

English language

Published March 25, 1992 by Chatto & Windus.

ISBN:
978-0-7011-3887-5
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OCLC Number:
60001232

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Miami, 1992, "city of water, city of speed," tropical garden of a city where corruption pulses beneath the lush surface. Miami, the perfect city for a vampire.

Yet Lestat—hero, rock star, incorrigible seducer of millions, the most powerful and sensual vampire of them all—prowls this savage garden in desperate N. misery. Restlessly pursuing the mystery of his dark existence across time and space, from New Orleans to Venice, the Cotswolds to the Amazon rain forest, nineteenth-century London to the Paris and snow- bound crags of his eighteenth-century youth, Lestat yearns to think and breathe and feel as a man, to walk in the sun, free of his nightmare immortality.

Stalked in his turn by the only creature who can grant his desire, Lestat—against all the rules, all urgent warnings—rashly seizes it. IVhile the Body Thief, cloaked in his immortal powers, lays a trail of carnage across America and the Caribbean, …

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