Anne Rice's magnificent Songs of the Seraphim continues with a
lyrical and haunting new novel of angels and assassins set in dark and
dangerous worlds - in our time and in centuries past.
Toby
O'Dare, former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to
fifteenth-century Rome - the city of Michelangelo and Raphael, of Leo X
and the Holy Inquisition - to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and
to uncover the secrets of an earthbound restless spirit, a diabolical
dybbuk. Toby is plunged into this rich age as a lutist sent to charm and
calm this troublesome spirit.
In the fullness of the high
Italian Renaissance, Toby soon discovers himself in the midst of dark
plots and counterplots, surrounded by a still darker and more dangerous
threat as the veil of ecclesiastical terror closes in around him. And as
he once again embarks on a powerful journey of atonement, he is
reconnected with his own past, with matters light and dark, fierce and
tender, with the promise of salvation and with a deeper and richer
vision of love.