"Stuffed with rich, incense-laden cultural history and travelogue, The Historian is a smart, bibliophilic mystery."
--LEV GROSSMAN, Time
"A sumptuous quest-novel with an intelligent woman as protagonist and narrator It draws you into the pages and you read on guiltily through the night, shiv ering a little as the monsoon winds wail outside your window"
--UMA MAHADEVAN-DASGUPTA,
propelled by the discovery of an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters, a young woman plunges into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family's oast connect to an incon ceivable evil: the dark reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental propor tions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe--in a feat of storytelling so rich, so exciting, so suspenseful that it has enthralled readers around the world.
