Richard Stirling is a successful lawyer who specializes in defending the rights of the underprivileged. He falls in love with the pianist Rebecca Pennant, and as their romance develops, a tragic event takes Rebecca out of his life. In the wake of this dramatic misfortune, Richard re-encounters an heirloom, an astonishing mirror.
This is a vampire story unlike any other, a tale of this contemporary world reflected from that other land where the dead are more alive than any dreamer.
A thinking man's vampire novel on the pros and cons of immortality. The protagonist is a San Francisco lawyer who becomes a vampire, resurrects his murdered love and together they experience the thrills of immortality. It turns out, however, that being immortal in a world of mortals is not much fun and the lawyer seeks to return to the worlld of the living. The novel tackles an age-old riddle, what is life?
“The book abounds with insights on how our mortality shapes our understanding of the world. In St. Peter’s Wolf, Cadnum leveraged the werewolf theme into a forceful exploration of the human condition; he does the same here with the vampire theme, in what is bound to be one of the more provocative horror novels.” —Publishers Weekly
