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Bennett & elrod |
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1996 |
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From Publishers Weekly |
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Vampires and snipers and lust, oh my! Bennett, who stars as La Croix, vampire patriarch of TV's Forever Knight, and Elrod, author of Ace's Vampire Files series, cut their collaborative teeth on this tale of Arthurian vampires who fight modern terrorism. Richard d'Orleans, tournament champion and third son of a noble Norman family, is recruited into full-fanged vampirehood by the seductive Lady Sabra. After an initiation that perversely mixes sex and blood, Richard gets a new job opportunity as bodyguard to the legendary King Arthur. Bennett and Elrod then blithely skip a millennium or so, as Richard must save Canada's prime minister from a 1996 IRA assassination. In his spare time (while avoiding daylight), he must also find the Holy Grail, in order to heal Lady Sabra from the fatal beastliness inherent to even these comparatively ethical vampires. In their own quest to leave no loathsome stone unturned and no bodily fluids unsluiced, the authors have produced a campy parody of dark fantasy. This wallow in bloodsucking, mind-bending, flesh-rending and incest, told in fulsome, fluorescent prose, depicts such acts as not only acceptable and entertaining but as downright alluring. Perhaps it's an acquired taste? Author tour.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. |
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Ingram |
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In Gaul at the dawn of the Middle Ages, Lord Richard was his family's fighting man, its invincible champion--until some force twisted his blade from his hand. And then he met the Lady Sabra, who soothed his wounds, healed his pride--and turned him into a vampire under her tutelage. His new job: Keeper of the King of England. True to Sabra's wishes, the English king was keeping civilization alive. Richard's object in unlife: keep the king alive at all costs. But that was then--now it's the 1990s and Richard's job isn't over. |
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Mystik Merchant |
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King Arthur's greatest knight, Lancelot, is on the hunt for the Holy Grail in this first of three vampire novels written by award-winning actor Nigel Bennett www.blackhatstation.com & award-winning writer P.N. Elrod. www.vampwriter.com
Made into a vampire in ages past Lancelot now lives in modern-day Toronto as security consultant Richard Dun. He's called to action by the Canadian government to foil an assassination plot, but things go wrong when his blood thirst unexpectedly goes out of control. Seeking help from his lover and mentor, Sabra of the Lake, he is horrified to discover she is also losing control of her hunger.
Their only hope is for Richard to find the Grail again, but Charon the assassin is also after it for his own dark purposes.
These novels are not connected to the Forever Knight TV series Nigel Bennett starred in, but they do make a riviting read for any vampire fan. Bennett and Elrod's other titles in the Lord Richard series for Baen Books are HIS FATHER'S SON & SIEGE PERILOUS, and their short story featuring Sabra, WOLF AND HOUND for the collection DRACULA IN LONDON, ed. P.N. Elrod |
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