The Last Rite

The Danilov Quintet 5

Jasper Kent

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Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
15 August 2015

Horror & ghost stories; Historical fiction

Series: The Danilov Quintet

Part historical adventure, part vampire thriller - the fifth and final darkly chilling chapter in Jasper Kent's acclaimed 'Danilov Quintet'.

Russia - 1917. Zmyeevich, king of all vampires, is dead.

History records that the great voordalak - known across Europe as Dracula - perished in 1893 beneath the ramparts of his own castle, deep in the mountains of Wallachia. In Russia, the Romanov tsars are free of the curse that has plagued their blood for two centuries. But two decades later and Tsar Nicholas II faces a new threat - a threat from his own people. War has brought Russia to her knees and the people are hungry for change. Revolution is in the air. Mihail Konstantinovich Danilov - who himself carries Romanov blood - welcomes the prospect of a new regime. Like his ancestors he once fought to save the Romanovs from the threat that Zmyeevich brought them. Fought and won. But now he sees no future for a Russia ruled by a tyrant. He is joined in the struggle by his uncle, Dmitry Alekseevich - a creature born in a different era, over a century before. For more than half his existence he has been a vampire, and yet he still harbours one very human desire; that his country should be free. But the curse that infects the blood of the Romanovs cannot be so easily forgotten and Mihail soon discovers that it - that he - may become the means by which a terror once thought eradicated might be resurrected . . .

By: Jasper Kent
Imprint: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 5
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 388g
ISBN: 9780857501066
ISBN 10: 0857501062
Series: The Danilov Quintet
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 15 August 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jasper Kent was born in Worcestershire in 1968, studied Natural Sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and now lives in Hove, East Sussex. As well as writing The Danilov Quintet (his internationally acclaimed sequence of historical horror novels set in Russia) Jasper works as a freelance software consultant. He has also written several musicals.

Reviews for The Last Rite: (The Danilov Quintet 5)

A brilliant book * Historical Novel Society * The series so far has been thoroughly dark and entertaining, I had high hopes for the grand finale and what ever Jasper Kent had in store for us . . . as with the other four books in the series, he did not disappoint . . . unique and thoroughly enjoyable * PARMENIONBOOKS *