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Supping With Panthers

Tom Holland author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Published:6th Nov '08

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* A brilliantly imaginative novel of passion and suspense * 'High entertainment' THE TIMES

* A brilliantly imaginative novel of passion and suspense
* 'High entertainment' THE TIMES

In 1888 Dr John Eliot returns to London haunted by the memory of a terrible expedition to a remote Himalayan kingdom, where he had uncovered horrors far beyond the frontiers of science. Yet Eliot's faith in reason is to be tested even further when the body of a friend, drained white of blood, is dragged up from the Thames, and another associate goes missing. Eliot's quest to uncover the mystery reveals a deadly conspiracy, but then, in the lair of an enigmatic Eastern adventuress, he glimpses hints of a truth yet more extraordinary, of dark and terrible pleasures, of a whole new world ...

Vampires and immortals walk the gas-lit streets of Victorian London, mingling with Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker and Lord Byron, and Tom Holland meshes fact with fiction in this brilliantly imaginative novel of passion and suspense.

** 'Goes at a cracking pace with its wit, superb sense of humour and literary cross-references' SCOTSMAN ** 'A ripping yarn' INDEPENDENT ** 'Meticulous about literary and historical accuracy - scarily bright' DAILY TELEGRAPH ** 'Charged with an authentic poetic force' PUBLISHING NEWS ** 'A brilliant, new fin-de-siecle vampire mystery.' BOOKSELLER ** '... oozing atmospgere and dripping with menace.' YORKSHIRE POST

ISBN: 9780349121680

Dimensions: 131mm x 200mm x 34mm

Weight: 348g

512 pages