Type: Hardcover Condition: Used, Great. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the cover and spine. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages. Details: Servant of the Bones, by Anne Rice *First Edition ISBN: 0679433015 Pages: 387 Published: 1996 A new saga begins, a major departure for the incomparable Anne Rice. Having created fantastic universes of vampires and witches, having chronicled the exploits of Lestat and the Mayfairs, she carries us now into new realms of the occult, the mystical, and the magical, and into the presence--now and through the centuries- of a dark and luminous new hero: the powerful, witty, smiling Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, demon, angel-in love with the good, in thrall to the evil. He pours out his heart to us, telling his astonishing story when he finds himself-_in our own time, in New York City-a dazed witness to the murder of a young girl called Esther and inexplicably obsessed by the desire to avenge her. He takes us back to his mortal youth in the mag- nificent city of Babylon--the gateway to the pagan gods, a wonder of ziggurats, shrines, and ships at anchor from all nations. We see Ariel at twenty-a Jew, educated, rich, beautiful, fiercely devoted to his captive Hebrew tribe, and dedicated to his prophets Jeremiah and Isaiah. In this time of bloody wars and religious upheavals, greedy kings and cunning magicians who vie with rabbis for spiritual dominion, Ariel falls victim to a royal plot compounded by his devotion to his Hebrew God- only to be plucked from death by evil priests and sorceresses and transformed into a genii commanded to do their bidding. Challenging these forces of destruction, marshal- ing all his strength and wit to defeat them, Azriel embarks on his perilous journey through time- from Babylon's hanging gardens to the Europe of the Black Death to Manhattan in the 19905- (continued on back flap)