The Tale of the Body Thief Book

In Miami 1992 a tropical garden of a city where corruption pulses beneath the lush surface is the perfect city for a vampire. Yet Lestat - hero rock star incorrigible seducer and the most powerful and sensual vampire of them all - prowls this savage garden in desperate misery. Restlessly pursuing the mystery of his dark existence Lestat yearns to think breathe and feel as a man free of his nightmare immortality. When stalked in his turn by the only creature able to grant his desire Lestat rashly seizes the chance. While the Body Thief cloaked in Lestat's immortal powers lays a trail of carnage across America and the Caribbean Lestat himself is abandoned to the fragility of human life and discovers that a mortal body is no fit receptacle for a vampire's soul. Rejected by the other vampires a tormented and appallingly vulnerable Lestat is forced to seek human help to recover his vampire self; help he abuses unforgivably when in a mesmerizing climax he succumbs to the basest urge in any nature.