James Asher finds himself once more in alliance with vampire Don
Simon Ysidro, as their investigations takes them to far-off Peking. .
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October, 1912. James Asher, his wife Lydia, and the old occultist and
vampire-hunter Dr Solomon Karlebach have journeyed to the new-born
Republic of China to investigate the rumour that the mindless Undead -
the Others that even the vampires fear - have begun to multiply in the
caverns of the hills west of Peking. Alongside his old vampire partner,
Don Simon Ysidro, Asher embarks on a sinister hunt, while somewhere in
the city's cold gray labyrinth lurk the Peking vampires, known as the
Magistrates of Hell - with an agenda of their own . . .