NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Rice allows [her vampires] to do what they do best: wreak havoc and evoke terror. All while impeccably dressed." --The Washington Post
The vampire world is in crisis ... Old vampires, roused from deep slumber in the earth, are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn their kin in cities across the globe, from Paris to Mumbai, Hong Kong to San Francisco. Left with little time to spare, a host of familiar characters including Louis de Pointe du Lac, Armand, and even the vampire Lestat, must embark on a journey to discover who--or what--is driving this mysterious being.
"Bloody marvelous." --Time
"Rice allows [her vampires] to do what they do best: wreak havoc and evoke terror. All while impeccably dressed." --The Washington Post
"Reminds us just how immense and rich . . . Rice's universe of poetic, morally questioning vampires is." --Elle
"Rice never lost touch with the exuberant, often witty, and always fearless voice of irrepressible vampire Lestat de Lioncourt." --BookPage
"Good, old-fashioned fanged fun." --Kirkus Reviews
"The thinking-person's vampire story. . . . Reads like a house on fire." --Bookreporter
"No one does what Anne Rice does . . . . Fun, sexy, and irresistible." --January magazine
"Irrepressively seductive." --Next magazine