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Children of the Night (Mass Market Paperback)

by Dan Simmons (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; Reprint edition (1 Jan 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0446364754
  • ISBN-13: 978-0446364751
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 314,180 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A Romanian infant who flourishes when given the wrong blood transfusion could hold the key to a cure for AIDS and cancer, but he also shares an intimate link to a clan of vampires.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent piece of work., 21 Mar 2000
By gaz@nerys.force9.co.uk (Cheltenham Spa, England) - See all my reviews
I have been the proud owner of a hardback copy of The Children Of The Night for almost ten years and still go back to read it again and again. The story is set in the modern day and uses historically accurate accounts (told in the first person) of the infamous Vlad Tepes aka Dracula. It is the ideal starting point for any reader who is interested in the 15th century ruler, both captivating and disgusting in the true accounts of his escapades, though still addictive. The story is basically thus- an American, Kate Neuman while working in a Romanian orphanage, adopts a sick child with a seemingly unknown and incurable disease. After extensive trouble with corrupt authorities she gets him back to America for treatment and begins to personally investigate his disease only to have him snatched in the dead of night and her lab destroyed, her workmates and ex-husband murdered. She enbarks on a perillous journey, using gypsies and criminals to aid her covert re-entry into Romania in a bid to reclaim her adoptive child with explosive results. I wont spoil it by telling you the ending. You'll just have to read the book to find out.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars simply the best, 30 Aug 2004
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Pure gold.

If you like your fiction peppered with reality and grit, a healthy dose of real, believable, true science and of course horror then you can do better than this.

This book is Simmons best, I'm not a huge SF fan and have not gotten into his more popular hyperion books, but if you like the 'old school' Simmons, horror with a damn good story you can stop looking right now.

This book weaves a link between AIDS and real vampires in such a way you finish the book forgetting its fiction and thinking well, it sits so perfectly it must be true.

Pure genius, if only Simmons could do some more in this genre that he perfects so well.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible, Inspirational, 1 April 2003
By Jennifer Marciniak (Temple, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
The historical accounts in the book are accurate, the Romanian language,the maps, everything. If Dan Simmons did not do his research in Romania itself, you would never have guessed. This book inspired me to seek out the answers myself -- I spent two years in Romania as a Peace Corps volunteer primarily because of this novel.
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