The Third Section
The third novel in Jasper Kent's enthralling, chilling and acclaimed historical vampire sequence – The Danilov Quintet.
Russia 1855. After forty years of peace in Europe, war rages. In the Crimea,
the city of Sevastopol is besieged. In the north, Saint Petersburg is
blockaded. But in Moscow there is one who needs only to sit and wait –
wait for the death of an aging tsar, and for the curse upon his blood to be passed to a new generation.
As their country grows weaker, a
brother and sister – each unaware of the other's existence – must come to terms with the legacy left them by their father. In Moscow, Tamara
Valentinovna Lavrova uncovers a brutal murder and discovers that it is
not the first in a sequence of similar crimes, merely the latest,
carried out by a killer who has stalked the city since 1812.
And
in Sevastopol, Dmitry Alekseevich Danilov faces not only the guns of the combined armies of Britain and France, but must also make a stand
against creatures that his father had thought buried beneath the earth,
thirty years before.
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.
