num_pages: 373
description: As a child Diane Thiberge was the victim of an assault. Now aged 30, an ethnologist specializing in the study of predatory animals, and a woman adept in the martial arts, she believes she has at last found a meaning and purpose to her life when she decides to adopt a five-year-old Thai boy, Liu-San, whom she christens Lucien. A nightmare ensues, however. On her return to France, Lucien has an accident and is declared to be brain-dead. A series of murders make Diane realize that her son is no ordinary child, but the prey of sinister and paranormal forces.
language: English
title: The Stone Council
titlecomplete: The Stone Council
genres: Roman, France, Fantasy, Mystery, Novels, Thriller, French Literature, Fiction, Horror, Crime
ratings_count: 3606
publisher: Random House UK