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NECROSCOPE:
INVADERS
(Originally titled E-Branch: Invaders)
PAPERBACK
Copyright © 1998 Brian Lumley
Cover art by Paul Stanczykowski
ISBN: 0-340-73376-4
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FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM, THE WORLD NEEDS A NEW
NECROSCOPE
Harry
Keogh, Necroscope, is no more... And the Wamphyri are back - not
only in the Vampire World, where the ancient northern ice has melted
to release the original, the most evil, most powerful vampires of
all time, but in our world, too. Without the Necroscope - the one
man who could talk to the dead and the undead alike - only Ben Trask
and his weirdly talented espers of his secret organization, E-Branch,
stand between Mankind's survival and its domination by terrible
invaders out of Starside.
Trask: human lie-detector; David Chung: locator of all things evil;
Ian Goodfly: precog, whose glimpses of ever-furtive future have
so often saved the lives of his E-Branch colleagues. Three men,
their technology and their esoteric talents against shape-changing
challengers from a parallel universe. The odds don't look good,
and Harry Keogh is dead and gone, his motes scattered throughout
all the universes of Light. But as Harry himself was witness, death
isn't like that...
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NECROSCOPE: DEFILERS
HARDCOVER
PAPERBACK
Copyright © 1999 Brian Lumley
Cover art by Bob Eggleton
ISBN:0-340-79245-0
Published by Hodder and Stoughton
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Jake
Cutter is reluctantly learning how to be a Necroscope -- how to
use the Möbius Continuum to travel instantaneously from place to
place, how to talk to the dead -- but the dead don't like him much.
It seems Jake's got a hitchhiker in his mind, a dead vampire named
Korath. Since Korath holds the key to the Möbius equations, Jake
can't just kick him out ... though he's certainly trying!
Jake's not sure he really wants to be a member of E-Branch, the
super-secret ESP-powered organisation that's dedicated to eradicating
the vampire infestation of Earth. To the freewheeling, passionate
Jake, the E-Branchers seem a little stuffy and hidebound -- except
for the lovely Liz, whom Jake wants to get to know better, body
and mind. But Liz is a telepath, and if Jake's not careful, she'll
find out about Korath. And that will likely be the end of Jake Cutter.
In Australia, Jake helped E-Branch destroy the aerie of the mind-master,
Nephran Malinari, one of the trio of Great Vampires who came to
Earth from the vampire world. Malinari escaped and went to ground
with the hideously beautiful Lady Vavara. Vavara has taken over
a holy monastery on an idyllic Greek island and turned the nuns
into most unholy creatures of fearsome appetites for all things
carnal.
Jake wants revenge against the Italian mobsters who killed the
woman he loved, and nearly killed him. As far as he's concerned,
E-Branch can search for Malinari, Vavara, and the metamorphic Lord
Szwart without him until he's satisfied his own bloodlust. But it
seems vampire-hunting is truly Jake's job now -- the men he's trying
to kill aren't men at all, but vampire spawn, hidden for two generations
in human guise!
To defeat them, Jake will need every weapon in the Necroscope's
arsenal, including the power to call the unsleeping dead out of
their mouldering graves...
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NECROSCOPE: AVENGERS
HARDBACK
PAPERBACK
Copyright © 2000 Brian Lumley
Cover art by Paul Stanczykowski
ISBN:0-340-79247-7
Published by Hodder and Stoughton
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They're
on the run! Now that their monstrous vampire 'garden' under London,
in Australia and on the Greek island of Krassos have been razed,
two 'Lords' and a 'Lady' of the Wamphyri -- Malinari the Mind, Lord
Szwart and the hag Vavara -- have joined forces, leaving a trail
of undead destruction as they flee headlong from Ben Trask's E-Branch
and the dead-waking Necroscope, Jake Cutter.
But headstrong Jake has problems of his own. In the metaphysical
Möbius Continuum, it appears that his blue life-thread -- the emblem
of his humanity -- is gradually fading, changing to red. And not
only red but blood red, dreaded
insignia of the Great Vampire!
Could this be the downside of Harry Keogh's legacy? And if so,
are the Necroscope and Trask's ESP-talented Avengers
-- his team of precogs, telepaths, and locators -- hastening in
pursuit of their own hideous doom? Earth's fate is undecided, mankind's
destiny on hold, the future a page as yet unwritten.
And the future was ever a devious thing...
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