Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim 1 - Softcover

Rice, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0701178175 ISBN 13: 9780701178178

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, 2009

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At the centre: Toby O'Dare - Lucky the Fox - a contract killer of underground fame. A soulless soul, a dead man walking...He's fallen far from grace, and lives under a series of aliases. Lucky takes his orders from someone he calls 'The Right Man', someone whose name and allegiances he doesn't know.

When the novel opens, the time is the present. The place is Riverside, California, the Mission Inn. For O'Dare, it is his place of solace; he can be there without disguise. This time, he's been sent on an assignment to kill. Into his nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions, comes a mysterious stranger, a seraph, who offers him a chance to save lives, rather than destroy them. Lucky, who grew up in a New Orleans, son of an alcoholic mother and a murdered father, long ago dreamt of being a priest, craving rituals, taking refuge in history, books and lute music - but instead came to embody danger and violence - now seizes his chance.

He is lifted in (angel) time and carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to a dangerous world, where Jews live an uneasy existence, their money coveted and protected by the crown for their function as money-lenders, unjustly despised by the rest. Into this primitive, treacherous setting, where accusations of ritual murder have been made against innocent Jews, and children have been found dead or missing, O'Dare begins a journey of salvation that leads him from the medieval villages of England to the cities of London and Paris as his quest becomes a story of danger and flight, loyalty and betrayal, selflessness and love.

Biografía del autor:

Anne Rice is the author of more than thirty internationally bestselling books including ‘The Mayfair Witches’ sequence, ‘The Songs of the Seraphim’ and, most recently, ‘The Wolf Gift Chronicles’. The phenomenon that became ‘The Vampire Chronicles’ started with Interview with a Vampire in 1976, later made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and culminated with Blood Canticle in 2003. Prince Lestat is the first new Vampire Chronicle novel for over a decade. Anne Rice lives in California.

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• Verlag: Chatto & Windus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0701178175
• ISBN 13: 9780701178178
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288