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RED SNOW
A major new novel from this multi-award winning British author.
RED SNOWbrings depth and historical realism to an ageold myth. Combining the lush baroque of Anne Rice with the unflinching grittiness and cinematic vision of the Coen Brothers, RED SNOW is an epic story of science, death, myth and magic that plays out over generations.
In the years prior to the French Revolution, a craftsman in Strasbourg is commissioned to paint a series of portraits that chart the changing appearance of a beautiful woman over the course of her life... even though the woman herself does not age.
In the wake of the last great battle of the American Civil War, men lie dead and dying on the plains. Union medic Karl Haupmann passes between them, doing what he can to save their lives or ease their suffering. There he is confronted by a withered, maniacal creature picking over the bodies of the dead. The encounter is violent, and leaves this former man of science much changed but somehow impossibly the same. Though he seeks to understand it, Karl cannot ignore his new-found blood-lust. He embarks upon a quest to seek out the roots of this evil, and finds it stretches back through Medieval Europe to the gloom of a cave overlooking the Black Sea.
After decades of wandering, he returns to New York where the Roaring Twenties are in full swing. There he traces not only the old portraits of the ageless woman but also a young anarchist who is somehow an echo of the subject herself. The stage is set for a bloody finale and a final confrontation during the turbulent glamour of the last days of the Prohibition era.
RED SNOWbrings depth and historical realism to an ageold myth. Combining the lush baroque of Anne Rice with the unflinching grittiness and cinematic vision of the Coen Brothers, RED SNOW is an epic story of science, death, myth and magic that plays out over generations.
In the years prior to the French Revolution, a craftsman in Strasbourg is commissioned to paint a series of portraits that chart the changing appearance of a beautiful woman over the course of her life... even though the woman herself does not age.
In the wake of the last great battle of the American Civil War, men lie dead and dying on the plains. Union medic Karl Haupmann passes between them, doing what he can to save their lives or ease their suffering. There he is confronted by a withered, maniacal creature picking over the bodies of the dead. The encounter is violent, and leaves this former man of science much changed but somehow impossibly the same. Though he seeks to understand it, Karl cannot ignore his new-found blood-lust. He embarks upon a quest to seek out the roots of this evil, and finds it stretches back through Medieval Europe to the gloom of a cave overlooking the Black Sea.
After decades of wandering, he returns to New York where the Roaring Twenties are in full swing. There he traces not only the old portraits of the ageless woman but also a young anarchist who is somehow an echo of the subject herself. The stage is set for a bloody finale and a final confrontation during the turbulent glamour of the last days of the Prohibition era.
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Published 2023-05-11 by PS Publishing |