By Jasper Kent
The 3rd novel in Jasper Kent's spell binding, chilling and acclaimed ancient vampire series -- The Danilov Quintet.Russia 1855. After 40 years of peace in Europe, battle rages. within the Crimea, the town of Sevastopol is besieged. within the north, Saint Petersburg is blockaded. yet in Moscow there's person who wishes purely to sit down and wait -- look forward to the demise of an getting older tsar, and for the curse upon his blood to be handed to a brand new generation.As their kingdom grows weaker, a brother and sister -- each one blind to the other's lifestyles -- needs to come to phrases with the legacy left them through their father. In Moscow, Tamara Valentinovna Lavrova uncovers a brutal homicide and discovers that it isn't the 1st in a series of comparable crimes, purely the newest, performed through a killer who has stalked town considering that 1812.And in Sevastopol, Dmitry Alekseevich Danilov faces not just the weapons of the mixed armies of england and France, yet should also make a stand opposed to creatures that his father had suggestion buried underneath the earth, thirty years sooner than.
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He heard voices from outside and peeped back over the cliff. The three Russians were approaching. Like him, they had dismounted. Two of them carried pistols, but Owen knew how primitive their weapons were. The other must have been the one who had fired and would have to reload before he could do so again. Owen squeezed his fingers around the grip of his Dean and Adams revolver and smiled. Five shots without reloading – and only three targets. The men approached the rock fall that had been Owen’s path over the wall.
There must have been over six hundred of them at the beginning. All dead now, probably. Owen slowed his own horse to a canter. The rhythm of the cannon changed – volleys of three now, rather than four. Owen laughed, briefly. There were no guns, not here. Back in the valley they might still be firing, but not here. He slowed his horse even more and the rhythm of hoofbeats changed again, quietening to almost nothing. There had been a point when the cannon had been loud enough to engulf the sound of twenty-four hundred thundering hooves, but not any more.
Her first appointment of the day, direct from stepping off the train, had been inside the Kremlin. In Petersburg, the location of the offices of the Third Section of His Majesty’s Own Chancellery was well known; the ‘building beside the chain bridge’ as it was usually called, the bridge being the one that crossed the Fontanka at the southern end of the Summer Garden. But in Petersburg, the leaders of the Third Section – Count Orlov and General Dubyelt – believed that a secret police force was most effective when it was least secret; that fear was a more effective weapon than surprise.