num_pages: 680
description: In Miami, 1992, a tropical garden of a city where corruption pulses beneath the lush surface is the perfect city for a vampire. Yet Lestat - hero, rock star, incorrigible seducer and the most powerful and sensual vampire of them all - prowls this savage garden in desperate misery. Restlessly pursuing the mystery of his dark existence, Lestat yearns to think, breathe and feel as a man, free of his nightmare immortality. When, stalked in his turn by the only creature able to grant his desire, Lestat rashly seizes the chance. While the Body Thief, cloaked in Lestat's immortal powers, lays a trail of carnage across America and the Caribbean, Lestat himself is abandoned to the fragility of human life, and discovers that a mortal body is no fit receptacle for a vampire's soul. Rejected by the other vampires, a tormented and appallingly vulnerable Lestat is forced to seek human help to recover his vampire self; help he abuses unforgivably when, in a mesmerizing climax, he succumbs to the basest urge in any nature.
language: English
title: The Tale of the Body Thief
titlecomplete: The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
characters: Lestat de Lioncourt, David Talbot
genres: Paranormal, Fantasy, Adult, Gothic, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Science Fiction Fantasy, Supernatural, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 85779
series: The Vampire Chronicles
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Horror / Dark Fantasy Novel, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Men's Science Fiction/Fantasy
publisher: Random House