For centuries, vampires have mocked people’s attempts to track them down and kill them. But now there is an executioner who knows exactly whom he is hunting and where to find them. Don Simon Xavier Christian Morado de la Cadena-Isidro, one of London’s oldest vampires, hires James Asher—a doctor of philology and a secret agent of Her Majesty—(retired) to find the killer.
If he fails, Don Simon promises to kill James himself and his wife, Lydia. Professor Asher begins the investigation. And Doctor Lydia Asher sets out to study vampires from a medical point of view, in the light of the newest viral theory… Barbara Hambly’s novel, in the cult translation by Yevgeny Lukin.