DESCRIPTION:
by Michael Jan Friedman.
275 pages; mass-market paperback.
Lawrence Talbot is the son of a family steeped in wealth and power. While on vacation in
Europe his life was changed forever when he was bitten by a lycanthrope and cursed to
walk the earth for the rest of eternity as an immortal monster driven by rage and an
unstoppable hunger for human prey. No longer a man, not fully a beast, Talbot was one
of the damned: a werewolf. After apparently dying at the hands of his loved ones, Talbot
awakes in the back of a car hurtling down a deserted road, evading gunfire from another
vehicle in hot pursuit. The driver of his car gets him to safety and informs him the
persons following them are from a heretical cult dedicated to the extermination of all
those marked by the sign of the Wolf. As Talbot places his trust in the hands of these new
friends, an order whose stated mission is to protect werewolves, and learns of the origins
of the werewolf curse, he slowly starts to realize that he is actually in more danger than
he could imagine and that his saviors have evil intentions all their own for him. |