General Information
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 Title:                  Memnoch the Devil
 Author:                 Anne Rice
 Read By:                David Harper Margolin
 Copyright:              1995
 Audiobook Copyright:    1995
 Genre:                  The Vampire Cronicles
 Publisher:              Random House Audio
 Series Name:            The Vampire Chronicles
 Position in Series:     5
 Abridged:               No

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Book Description
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The Vampire Lestat - outsider, canny monster, hero-wanderer - is at 
last offered the chanced to be redeemed. He is brought into direct confrontatio-
n with both God and the Devil, and into the land of Death. We are in 
New York. The city is blanketed in snow. Through the whiteness Lestat 
is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic daughter of a drug 
lord, the woman who arouses Lestat's tenderness as no mortal ever has. 
While torn between his vampire passions and his overwhelming love for 
Dora, Lestat is confronted by the most dangerous adversaries he has 
yet known. He is snatched from the world itself by the mysterious Memnoch, 
who claims to be the Devil. He is invited to be a witness at the Creation. 
He is taken like the ancient prophets into the heavenly realm; he is 
ushered into Purgatory. He must decide if he can believe in the Devil 
or in God. He must decide which, if either, to serve.

Memnoch the Devil is Volume 5 of The Vampire Chronicles.

The fifth volume of Rice's Vampire Chronicles is one of her most controversial 
books. The tale begins in New York, where Lestat, the coolest of Rice's 
vampire heroes, is stalking a big-time cocaine dealer and religious-art 
smuggler--this guy should get it in the neck. Lestat is also growing 
fascinated with the dealer's lovely daughter, a TV evangelist who's 
not a fraud.

Lestat is also being stalked himself, by some shadowy guy who turns 
out to be Memnoch, the devil, who spirits him away. From here on, the 
book might have been called Interview with the Devil (by a Vampire). 
It's a rousing story interrupted by a long debate with the devil. Memnoch 
isn't the devil as ordinarily conceived: he got the boot from God because 
he objected to God's heartless indifference to human misery. Memnoch 
takes Lestat to heaven, hell, and throughout history.

Some readers are appalled by the scene in which Lestat sinks his fangs 
into the throat of Christ on the cross, but the scene is not a mere 
shock tactic: Jesus is giving Lestat a bloody taste in order to win 
him over to God's side, and Rice is dead serious about the battle for 
his soul. Rice is really doing what she did as a devout young Catholic 
girl asked to imagine in detail what Christ's suffering felt like--it's 
just that her imagination ran away with her.

If you like straight-ahead fanged adventure, you'll likely enjoy the 
first third; if you like Job-like arguments with God, you'll prefer 
the Memnoch chapters

