New York: Pocket Books, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel which opens with "a small group of British soldiers attack a temple of Kali high up in the Himalayas, only to find themselves facing zombie/vampires enthralled by the goddess of destruction-and-bloodlust,who takes the form of a ravishingly beautiful vision of sexual horror named Lilah. . . Dr. John Eliot, also in India, investigates a horrible infection that melts brains and wastes the body, as well as a princely fortune that suddenly vanishes. . . Back in London, he's joined by theater manager Bram Stoker, who has not yet written Dracula" (Kirkus)- and where Lilah reappears. 421 pp. ISBN: 0-671540521.