Thirteen Years Later
Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him – would deliver Russia – and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasteth at noonday, and from the pestilence that walketh in darkness – the terror by night...
1825. Russia has been at peace for a decade. Bonaparte is long dead and the threat of invasion is no more. For Colonel Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov, life is calm. The French have been defeated, as have the twelve monstrous creatures he once fought alongside, and then against, all those years before. His duty is still to his tsar, Aleksandr the First, but today the enemy is merely human.
However, the tsar himself knows he can never be at peace. He is well aware of the uprising fermenting within his own army, but his true fear is of something far more terrible – something that threatens to bring damnation upon him, his family and his country. Aleksandr cannot forget a promise: a promise sealed in blood... and broken a hundred years before.
Now the victim of the Romanovs' betrayal has returned to demand what is his. The knowledge chills Aleksandr’s very soul. And for Aleksei, it seems the vile pestilence that once threatened all he held dear has returned, thirteen years later...
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Jasper Kent
Jasper Kent was born in Worcestershire, England in 1968. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham and went on to study Natural Sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, specialising in physics.
Jasper has spent almost twenty years working as a software engineer in the UK and in Europe, whilst also working on writing both fiction and music. In that time, he has produced the novels Twelve, Yours Etc., Mr Sunday and Sifr, as well as co-writing several musicals, including The Promised Land and Remember! Remember!
He currently lives in Brighton, with six rats called Rose, Manjula, Lurleen, Bertie, Dodo and Alecto, and a person called Helen.
The Danilov Quintet
It is a story that begins in 1812, in what seems Russia's
darkest hour. Yet in the midst of Napoleon's invasion, a new and
terrifying danger emerges, one which will haunt the Danilov family
across generations - just as it already has a far more prestigious
Russian family. It will end a hundred and five years later - as the dynasty of the
Tsars itself comes to an end - when the last of the Danilovs finally
confronts the horror that his ancestor invited into the country, so many years before.
The Danilov Quintet consists of five books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
