![]() Lestat flies Dora by batpower to Manhattan, shows her the apartment full of Roger's fabulous relics and cash. ![]() The relics include a fake Veronica's Veil, perhaps 400 years old. All Roger wants is for Lestat to deliver some laundered cash and a trove of religious relics to his daughter, Dora, a New Orleans televangelist. Then surprise: Roger's ghost turns up drinking Southern Comfort on a Manhattan barstool beside Lestat. Lestat is obsessed by Roger Flynn, a handsome billionaire cocaine smuggler whom he stalks for months and at last kills and dismembers. Rice's richly descriptive latest-the best plotted of the series-is less horror novel than a knockoff of Dostoevsky's theological battles. ![]() ![]() The fifth volume in the Vampire Lestat chronicles ( The Tale of the Body Thief, etc.) finds Lestat pitted against the greatest adversaries of his bloody life: God and the Devil. ![]()
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