"Brian Lumley - Necroscope 10 - Lost Years 02 - Resurgence" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lumley Brian)

Radu communicates telepathically with B J. from the resin vat in his Cairngorms hideaway. When she attends him, they converse as if he were
up and about He has ordered her to present Harry at her earliest opportunity. He wants to know the Necroscope's mind, to see if this is indeed the
man of his dreams of the future. But Radu is not merely curious. Since his mind is mainly 'divorced' from his physical body by virtue of his long
period of suspended animation, he cannot be sure that his body is fit and well and that his leech has beaten off his disease. However, and even in
a worst-case scenario, he believes he may still survive resurgence by use of metempsychosis: mind transference - to the body of
Harry Keogh. In which event the Keogh identity would be entirely subsumed, and Harry would be Radu!
Bonnie Jean knows Radu's plan and is in two minds about it Soon to be Wamphyri hi her own right - if indeed she has not
already 'ascended' - she would have Harry for herself. For the moment, however, she is under Radu's spell no less than
the Necroscope is under hers. She must obey her Master, even though her every fibre cries out against it
Perhaps if she knew Harry's history, his esoteric skills, she would be of a different mind. But she can't know, for despite that BJ.
is a powerful beguiler, second only to Radu himself, E-Branch got to the Necroscope first Even twice-hypnotized he is forbidden to reveal his
talents. Radu's hypnotism, on the other hand, is of a different order. It is possible he can even use it to enter Harry's mind. Indeed,
to achieve metempsychosis he will have to do just that! Thus Harry's secrets may yet be discovered...

Radu is not the only Great Vampire who survived the turbulent centuries. The only original, yes, but not the last On Tibet's Tingri
Plateau, Daham Drakesh, a Drakul, is the self-proclaimed High Priest of a monastery where he is breeding an army of
vampire thralls. Ostensibly he is in league with a parapsychological unit of the Chinese Red Army, based in Chungking. But in a region as
desolate and inaccessible as the Roof of the World, Drakesh is left much to his own devices. He knows that Radu Lykan is still 'alive,' and that hell
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soon return as a power in the world. Drakesh emissaries, vampire disciples, are searching for Radu's lair, to destroy him before he
can re-establish himself.
Likewise the last Ferenczys, twin brothers, have risen to the status of Dons of Dons in Sicily. They are not part of the Mafia as such, but they
are 'advisers' to the heads of all the Families on a world-wide scale; also, they are part-time advisers to the KGB, the
CIA, and other intelligence organizations. Their 'oracle,' the source of their information, is the vastly mutated Angelo Ferenczy -
great-grandson of Nonari the Gross! Some three hundred years ago Angelo's parasite suffered a metabolic breakdown; his metamorphism
overran him, reducing him to a freakish, lunatic Thing who is now confined to a pit under Le Manse Madonie, a Villa' in the Sicilian mountains of
the same name. His bloodsons, Anthony and Francesco, feed him, extorting the information that keeps them in
business. For, paradoxically, Angelo's vampire talents have been enhanced by his disorder; he is a server and seer of extraordinary power.
Being Wamphyri, however, and mad, Angelo's solutions, his answers, are seldom direct he obfuscates and plays word-games to
keep his bloodsons guessing. But he has warned them of Radu Lykan's imminent return, and of what the dog-Lord will do when
he returns: that hell seek them out to destroy them!
Recently then, both Daham Drakesh and the Ferenczys have set to with greater determination to find Radu and kill him in his
lair before his planned resurrection. They have discovered his keeper, B.J. Mirlu, and know that she has the assistance
of Harry Keogh. Except they believe him to be Alec Kyle! Also, it would appear that this same Kyle has somehow contrived to break into the
Ferenczys' treasure vault at their 'impregnable' manse, and make off with millions in negotiable currencys.
Daham Drakesh - who has kept himself secret even from the Ferenczys - is playing agent provocateur, he has sent disciples into
Scotland to take out Bonnie Jean Mirlu and stir up additional trouble between Radu and the Ferenczys. Drakesh's plan has
backfired; protected by the Necroscope, BJ. has survived; Drakesh's bloodson and a thrall have paid the ultimate price.
At Le Manse Madonie, the Ferenczys are furious over their own losses; they believe the break-in was a 'pre-emptive strike' by Radu's people,
to discover their weaknesses before the dog-Lord's return and the commencement of all-out war. In addition, they are
now aware of a third player, for one of their thralls, a sleeper in Scotland, has witnessed something of the death of Drakesh's
disciples at the hands of Harry Keogh.
But while Drakesh's losses are considerable (and while he has inadvertently shown his hand in things), he still
plans to be the
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ultimate agent provocateur. In possession of a means to set not only vampires but nations at each other's throats, the last Drakul is simply
biding his time while continuing to plot against his own kind and humanity in general ... and BJ. Mirlu and 'Alec Kyle' specifically.