NECROSCOPE: DEFILERS
(UK)
Copyright
© 1999 Brian Lumley
Cover art
by Bob Eggleton
ISBN:0-340-79245-0
Published
by Hodder and Stoughton
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NECROSCOPE: DEFILERS
(US)
Copyright
© 1999 Brian Lumley
Cover art by Bob Eggleton
ISBN:
0-312-87261-5
Published by Tom Doherty
Associates, Inc.
Liner notes by Melissa
Ann Singer
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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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Jake Cutter is reluctantly
learning how to be a Necroscope - how to use the Möbius continuum
to travel instantly 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 supersecret ESP-powered
organization 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 a 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 a beautiful Greek island and turned the nuns into most unholy
creatures of fearsome appetites of 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 a Necroscope's
arsenal, including the power to call the unsleeping dead out of
their moldering graves.
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