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Necroscope
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Brian Lumley |
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1994 |
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10.00 with 3 Votes
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From Publishers Weekly |
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Vast in scope and overripe with extraordinary characters and incidents, Lumleys proliferating Necroscope saga almost mandates a book-length reference companion. This new novel, the 11th in the series (after Resurgence, 1996) and the first in an offshoot trilogy, carries on the tradition in fine form, but also shows the problems inherent in keeping the increasingly byzantine intrigues of these horror/espionage hybrids accessible to new readers. During an explosive start, in which psychic agents of the hard-working E- (short for ESP) Branch smoke out a nest of vampires in the Australian desert, the novel introduces Jake Cutter, another of Lumleys gutsy populist heroes. Jake has been delivered to the paranormal intelligence unit by the ghost of Harry Keogh, the original Necroscope, who foresees a future clash between Jake and a vampire trio wreaking havoc on Earth. Harrys discorporate consciousness takes up residence in Jakes mind, but Jake is totally ignorant of the vampire invaders from the alternate universe of Sunside/Starside and the long-running war that left Harry (and, by proxy, Jake) infected with their taint. This necessitates a lengthy and tedious history of events from the preceding novels, recounted to Jake by both mortals and monsters in multiple chapters of straight exposition. Granted, Lumleys characters are a lively bunch, but none tell the story as excitingly as he does, and the result is not unlike sitting down at the dinner table with a hearty appetite and hearing about a sumptuous banquet someone else attended. A climactic encounter with the vampire Nephran Malinari in his aerie in the Australian mountains gets the action roaring again by the storys finale, and with luck heralds the end of the laborious updates.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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From Booklist |
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Lumley continues his popular series of vampire thrillers with the first book in a prospective trilogy. Jake Cutter is in line to succeed the late Harry Keogh as the Necroscope, or leading finder-hunter of vampires. Jake has his own agenda, however, and a troubled personal history, which make E-Branch more than a trifle uncertain about taking him on, until it becomes clear that the most powerful of three Wamphyri newly loose on Earth has set up business in Australia and needs to be stopped--yesterday! Lumley has firmly staked out the territory of the vampire thriller, much as Anne Rice has that of vampire erotica, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro that of the vampire historical romance. This book is a good place to start Lumley's Necroscope saga. Oh, some of its most gripping sequences (e.g., the invasion of the three Wamphyri lords and the enslavement of Korath Mindthrall) are told indirectly, which somewhat diminishes their emotional impact, but the action climax is a corker. Roland Green --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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The amazingly prolific Lumley (1998's Maze of Worlds and over 40 doorstopper volumes) kicks off a new branch of his Necroscope series now that the original Necroscope (or vampire killer), Harry Keogh, is dead. The new novel stands alone, although it's clear that the team from Britain's E-Branch (ESP) knows at the end that many invaders still live and are breeding, and that Lord Nephran Molinari may be running but can never hide from E-Branch. At the start, Lord Molinari has taken over Xanadu, a glass-domed pleasure palace in the Australian outback, had all glass painted black inside and out (to keep out the sun's rays), and filled caves measureless to man with his minions. New vampire slayers to arrive at Xanadu are budding telepath Liz Merrick, who can receive but not send, and Jake Cutter, whose secret abilities will not be revealed here. Soon, Liz and Jake are drawn into the vampire mines, where, with silver bullets and flamethrowers, they work their way out of endless cliffhangers brought about by attacking Wamphyri. Did the invaders have anything to do with the firestorm from hell, the huge fireball that traveled a hundred miles an hour and burned up the entire Australian town of Dirranbandi in one blazing swoop? Jake proves to be the new Necroscope, especially when in a dream, using Deadspeak, he contacts the late Harry Keogh and is trained in sidereal mathematics, numbers that will help him slay Wamphyri. Necroscope fans will find themselves reading as fast as Lumley can type, and new readers may apply as well with this inaugural Jake Cutter entry. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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Brian Lumley is the multi-million-copy-selling author of the Necroscope series: Necroscope, Vamphyri!, The Source, Deadspeak, Deadspawn, Necroscope: The Lost Years and Necroscope: Resurgence. His tale of the sons of Harry Keogh and the vampire planet fills three books: Blood Brothers, The Last Aerie, and Bloodwars. At the end of Bloodwars the vampire world was isolated from our own and the vampires destroyed. Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, had sacrificed his wife, his sons, his humanity, and finally his very life to save Earth. But evil is very hard to stamp out, and before too many years have passed the Gate is open once again. A new cycle of vampire terror is about to begin--a great way for new readers to begin the saga of humankind's battle against the ultimate bloodsuckers! Necroscope: Invaders Three great vampires--two Lords and a Lady--fall upon an unsuspecting Earth, a world teeming with defenseless human life. Easy prey for the marauding vampires, mankind will quickly be laid waste, or so they think. But Earth has defenders. Though the Necroscope is gone, the powerful ESP-powered spy organization he once led still exists. Mentally alert for the slightest sign of vampiric taint, the men and women of E-Branch have already moved against the fringes of the vampire infestation. Destroying minor vampires is all well and good, but the Lords and Lady must be found and eradicated. Without Harry Keogh and his connection to the teeming dead, E-Branch seems crippled, always two steps behind its enemies. When a young man turns up in the triply locked "Harry's Room" in E-Branch's London HQ, no one quite knows what to make of him--least of all the young man himself. Jake remembers running for his life, thousands of miles from London . . . and then nothing. Now he feels a curious whispering deep within his mind. And his dreams have become very strange, filled with visitations from dead vampires and dead people and Harry Keogh himself. If Jake is the new Necroscope, he has to learn--fast!--how to control his powers and speak to the dead. E-Branch, with the reluctant Jake along for the ride, is about to go head-to-head with Malinari the Mind, a vampire Lord whose psychic abilities are second to none. But the dead don't trust Jake, not like they once trusted Harry. Jake's spending too much time talking to a dead vampire, and too much time on personal revenge. He's got to start thinking about the future--or he won't have one! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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Ingram |
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A hardcover release of a classic horror tale follows the story of Thibor Ferenczy, a vampire from the mountains of Romania; Boris Dragosani, a Soviet spy who craves the secrets of the undead; and Harry Keogh, who seeks to stop them both. |
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