In Anne Rice's extraordinary new novel, the Vampire Lestat-outsider, canny monster, hero- wanderer-is snatched from the world itself by the most dangerous adversary he has ever known: Memnoch, a mysterious being who claims to be the Devil. He is invited to be a witness at the Creation. He is taken like the ancient prophets into the heavenly realm and is ushered into Purgatory. Lestat must decide if he will believe in the Devil or in God. And finally, he must decide which, if either, he will serve.
In the first four Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summoned up worlds that are fantastic and distant, making them as resonant, real, and immediate as our own. Now, in her darkest and most daring novel yet, she takes us, with Lestat, into the mythical world that is most important to us-into the realms of Heaven, and of Hell....