First Glen Duncan gave us his monstrously thrilling, genre-reinventing The Last Werewolf: the tale of Jake, a werewolf with a profoundly human heart, considering bringing to an end the timeless legend of his kind . . . Then Talulla Rising: Jake’s werewolf lover, mother to newborn twins, on the run from those who want her destroyed . . . And now By Blood We Live: a stunningly erotic love story that gives us the final battle for survival between werewolves and vampires, and one last searing—and brilliantly ironic—look at what it means to be, or not to be, human.

The story opens: Talulla has settled into an uneasy equilibrium. With her twins safely at her side, and the devotion of her lover, Walker, she has what appears to be a normal family life—except for their monthly transformation into werewolves hungry for human flesh. But even this hard-won, tenuous peace is undermined for Talulla by nagging thoughts of Remshi, the twenty-thousand-year-old vampire who haunts her dreams. For his part, Remshi can’t escape the feeling that he knows Talulla from many (many, many) years before. Still, they have their distractions: Talulla is being pursued by a fanatical, Vatican-based Christian cult, and Remshi is following a trail of reckless feedings by a newly turned vampire bent on revenge. But, as the novel unfolds, Talulla and Remshi are inexorably drawn to each other—and toward the moment when an ancient prophecy may finally come to pass.


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From the author of the best sellers The Last Werewolf and Talulla Rising, the hair-raising conclusion to the saga that has galvanized readers' imaginations: an electrifying, startlingly erotic love story that gives us the final battle for survival between werewolves and vampires, and one last incisive--brilliantly ironic--look at what it means to be, or to not be, human.

Talulla has settled into an uneasy equilibrium: with her twins at her side and the devotion of her lover Walker, it's a normal family life--except for their monthly transformation into werewolves hungry for human flesh. But even this tenuous peace is interrupted for Talulla by nagging thoughts of Remshi, the 20,000-year-old vampire who haunts her dreams. In turn Remshi can't escape the feeling that he knows Talulla from years before (many, many, many years). They have their distractions: Talulla is being pursued by a fanatical Christian cult, and Remshi is following the trail of reckless feedings by a newly turned vampire. But, as the novel unfurls, they are inextricably drawn to each other--and toward the moment when an ancient prophecy may finally come to pass--in this tale of pulse-pounding supernatural suspense.

With the same vicious imagination, blood-dark humor, and ferocious narrative energy of his bestselling novel The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan now delivers a heroine like no other.

Grieving for her werewolf lover, Jake, whose violent death has left her alone with her own sublime monstrousness, Talulla Demetriou is pregnant and on the run, fleeing to a remote Alaskan lodge to have her child in secret. There, with her infant son in her arms, it looks as if the worst is over. Until the door bursts open and she discovers that the nightmare is only just beginning. Tormented by guilt and fuelled by rage, Talulla is suddenly plunged into a race against time to save her son. Pursued by deadly forces, including (rumor has it) the oldest living vampire on earth, the odds seem hopeless. Unless, of course, a mother's love for her child turns out to be the deadliest force of all. . .

Jacob Marlowe ha appena scoperto di essere l'ultimo della sua specie. E braccato dai suoi nemici e tormentato da un tragico passato. Logorato da due secoli di lussuria e di assassinii, a cui è spinto ogni mese dalla Maledizione che lo ha colpito, ha deciso di consegnarsi alle autorità alla prossima luna piena. Gli ultimi trenta giorni prima che tutto finisca. Ma proprio mentre Jacob sta contando le ore che lo separano dalla propria fine, un brutale omicidio e un incontro tanto incredibile quanto inaspettato lo catapultano di nuovo all'inseguimento disperato della vita, "L'ultimo lupo mannaro" è il primo capitolo di una trilogia.

Glen Duncan delivers a powerful, sexy new version of the werewolf legend, a riveting and monstrous thriller--with a profoundly human heart.

Jake Marlowe is the last werewolf. Now just over 200 years old, Jake has an insatiable appreciation for good scotch, books, and the pleasures of the flesh, with a voracious libido and a hunger for meat that drives him crazy each full moon. Although he is physically healthy, Jake has slipped into a deep existential crisis, considering taking his own life and ending a legend that has lived for thousands of years. But there are two dangerous groups--one new, one ancient--with reasons of thier own for wanting Jake very much alive.

Tra le nevi dell'Alaska, Talulla Demetriou aspetta come ogni mese la trasformazione. Lupo mannaro, incinta, in un mondo dominato dai vampiri. Al sorgere della luna piena accade tutto in un attimo: il dolore, il parto, un vetro che si infrange. I suoi nemici storici sono arrivati per sottrarle l'unica cosa che ancora la tiene aggrappata alla vita. Inizia così un inseguimento planetario tra l'Inghilterra, l'Italia e Creta, che porterà Talulla al cospetto del più antico vampiro vivente. Una corsa contro il tempo, insieme a un branco di inattesi alleati, per compiere la sua missione.

Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but otherwise in the pink of health. The nonstop sex and exercise he’s still getting probably contribute to that, as does his diet: unusual amounts of flesh and blood (at least some from friends and relatives). Jake, of course, is a werewolf, and with the death of his colleague he has now become the only one of his kind. This depresses Jake to the point that he’s been contemplating suicide. Yet there are powerful forces who for very different reasons want—and have the power—to keep Jake alive.

Here is a powerful new version of the werewolf legend—mesmerizing and undeniably sexy, and with moments of violence so elegantly wrought they dazzle rather than repel. But perhaps its most remarkable achievement is to make the reader feel sympathy for a man who can only be described as a monster—and in doing so, remind us what it means to be human.

One of the most original, audacious, and terrifying novels in years.

Jacob Marlowe ha appena scoperto di essere l'ultimo della sua specie. È braccato dai suoi nemici e tormentato da un tragico passato. Logorato da due secoli di lussuria e di assassinii, a cui è spinto ogni mese dalla Maledizione che lo ha colpito, ha deciso di consegnarsi alle autorità alla prossima luna piena. Gli ultimi trenta giorni prima che tutto finisca. Ma proprio mentre Jacob sta contando le ore che lo separano dalla propria fine, un brutale omicidio e un incontro tanto incredibile quanto inaspettato lo catapultano di nuovo all'inseguimento disperato della vita, "L'ultimo lupo mannaro" è il primo capitolo di una trilogia.

It served pioneers, agricultural refugees, cultural icons and burgers. It featured long stretches of desert and a bouquet of neon signs trailing for miles, and its name may be the most recognized of all the roads in America. Stretching from Chicago to Santa Monica, Route 66 was itself a cultural icon long before Milner and Maharis perpetually bisected it, and today efforts are being made to bring it back to its glory days, complete with giant shoe-shaped delis and dancing dragon gates. Enthusiast Duncan, who was born along its splendor and managed to stay there, moves mile by mile as he describes the passage from the desert through the foothills, the Arroyo Secon communities, Hollywood and Beverly Hills. He and his supporters, the California Route 66 Preservation Foundation, provide archival photographs as well as photo essays of the portions of the Route that still stand in all their pastel glory. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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