Overview
When young Harry Keogh discovered that he was a Necroscope - someone who can communicate with the dead - he was astonished. He grew more astonished as the years passed and his dead friends - the world's greatest artists, scientists, inventors, and thinkers, not to mention ordinary folks like Harry's own dear, departed Ma - bestowed on him their knowledge and their love. He also learned how to transport himself instantaneously through time and space, with the power of his mind alone, but not all the gifts he received were so wonderful. There was terrible knowledge to be had. Mankind was being preyed upon by terrible vampires who hunted humans for their blood. Some people became victims of macabre "experiments" that rendered them unrecognizable as human beings. Others were kept as servants or playthings. Harry Keogh swore that he would become man's greatest defender, that he would destroy every last vampire. But the price of this war was high. Many of those Harry loved and respected were corrupted, killed, or lost - including his own wife and son - vanished in the heat of battle. Harry's search for his family began in Necroscope: The Lost Years. It ends here.Synopsis
A trio of bloodthirsty aliens is out to prove the existence of God by becoming so evil that He will have to act against them. They've already destroyed one world and most of their own race; now they have their eyes set on earth. Their opponents: the men a
Publishers Weekly
British author Lumley's first Necroscope novel since Necroscope IV: Deadspeak (2001) introduces a new hero, Scott St. John, who, like his late predecessor, Harry Keough, is able to talk to the dead and travel anywhere via Moebius strip. Scott becomes a spy in the E-Branch of the British Secret Service, joining, among others, a future-foretelling precog, a mind-reading telepath and a spotter who can detect persons with ESP. When a government official suffers "evagination" (in effect, he's turned inside out like a glove), Scott and crew wind up on a mission to prevent a psychically gifted race, the Shing't, from destroying the Earth. The spirit of Scott's recently deceased wife permits him to dally with an extraterrestrial beauty, Shania, as well as, however implausibly, a shaggy female wolf. Billed as horror, this unpretentious SF adventure provides plenty of fun in the classic pulp tradition. (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.