A Sharpness on the Neck
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In 1792 Philip Radclife the bastard son of Benjamin Franklin comes to France to deliver a letter to Thomas Paine. But the guillotine of the Terror has the nation under its bloody blade - and he is caught up in a conflict more horrifying than the Revolution. Unknowingly he saves the life of Prince Vlad Dracula the most eminent and honorable of the Nosferatu. In doing so he makes a powerful ally but by foiling Vlads brother Radus attempt at fratricide he and his descendants are doomed eternally to suffer the vengeful assaults of a powerful vampire. Now in 1996 the current Philip and June Radcliffe are kidnapped on their honeymoon. Their captor a mysterious Mr. Graves swears that he is trying to protect them. But as his thrilling story unfolds involving Napoleon Robespierre Madame Tussaud the Marquis de Sade the Scarlet Pimpernel and Charles Darnay as well as Jerry Cruncher and Detective Dupin the young couple refuses to believe him - a mistake that is almost certain to cost them their lives.