The Past Belongs To The Night1863: During a shipwreck in the frigid waters off the coast of North America, one man dies and a demon is rechristened.
Enoch Bale, once known as Count Draculiya, reaches America´s shores.
On the eve of the New York Draft Riots, Echo Van Helsing comes to the city to avenge the mysterious murder of her father by a hideous creature out of ancient myth. Instead she is met by conspiracy, unholy terror and a terrible truth.
The Night Belongs To The Dead.
The Present: Archeologist Carrie Norton makes a startling find in a historic Manhattan site: the mummified corpse of a Civil War-era homicide victim.
Cold-case detective Max Slattery sees something more: gruesome, uncanny parallels to a recent series of brutal slayings.
Their investigation is about to take them places neither expected, because while the man responsible may be long dead, he is no longer gone.
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When the past reaches into the present, when New York faces the repetition of gruesome murders, when a 150 year old body's found with lips sewn together, no one thinks there might be a connection to the past.
So an Antropologist and a successful NYPD police cop are assigned to do some research about the old body. They soon discover that recent murders and the almost mummified corpse do have similarities. Their research takes them back to New York's past, partucilarly into the year 1863, where similar murders happened and when their John Doe has been killed.
In the year 1863 Count Draculyia arrives in New York, prepared to fight a "death-threatening" fight with a Damphyr, the fallen, brutal angel, Adam Worth.
With Echo and Matthew Van Helsing, seeking revenge for their fathers death, breathing down his neck, he tries to correct the wrongs of their past.
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An ok book if you're not demanding something that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
The book is all about New York, it's past, the civil war and very picturesque. I caught myself skipping all this descriptions about surroundings and how New York has been built and structured back in 1863.
Due to all this descriptions the plot fell a bit short without much substance.
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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Signet (January 2, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451222792
ISBN-13: 978-0451222794
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