In another feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic <b>Interview with the Vampire</b> and continued with <b>The Vampire Lestat</b> and <b>The Queen of the Damned</b>. <br><br>Lestat speaks.  Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals.  For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone.  And suddenly all his vampire rationale--everything he has come to believe and feel safe with--is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.<br><br><b>The Tale of the Body Thief</b> is told with the unique--and mesmerizing--passion, power, color, and invention that distinguish the novels of Anne Rice.