Underworld: Rise of the Lycans - Softcover

Cox, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1439112843 ISBN 13: 9781439112847

Publisher: Pocket Star, 2009

Synopsis

For untold centuries, a secret conflict has been waged between two immortal rivals:

The vampires - ageless aristocrats with a sensual appetite for blood and luxury. Among their ranks are the Death Dealers, an elite corps of the undead sworn to the destruction of their ancestral enemies...

The werewolves - feral warriors capable of transforming into hellish beasts of unearthly power and ferocity. Once the enslaved servants of the vampires, the savage lycans now fight tooth and claw against their former masters.

Throughout history, the clandestine war has been fought in the shadows of the mortal world. And the seeds of this destructive conflict were sown long ago, when a young lycan lost his heart to a beautiful vampire princess...

About this title

About the Author

Greg Cox is a New York Times bestselling author whose works include numerous Star Trek novels, as well as the official movie novelizations of Ghost Rider, Daredevil, Underworld, and Underworld: Evolution. He has also written for such popular series as Alias, Farscape, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man, Xena, Roswell, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania.

From the Back Cover

The official movie novelization of the latest film in the blockbuster action/horror movie series, Underworld―coming to theaters in January 2009 from Sony Pictures!

Centuries ago...two ageless and terrifying races―the aristocratic vampires and the feral lycans―are bound by a cruel, ancestral relationship between master and servant, and eternally separated by the ongoing, violent rivalry between their two species. But unknown to both nobility and enslaved alike, a clandestine―and forbidden―affair between the lycan servant Lucian and the beautiful vampire noblewoman Sonja burns brightly with an unbridled passion. Seeking to escape Sonja’s tyrannical father, Viktor, and a future in which their love is considered an abomination, Lucian risks the ever-present machinations of the court and his very life to cast himself and his beloved free of their bonds...a daring tactic that will eventually give all lycans the courage to rise up against their oppressive vampire overlords. New alliances are forged even as the chains of slavery are broken...and all that Lucian and Sonja hold dear will be threatened with utter annihilation....

Edition details

• Publisher: Pocket Star
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1439112843
• ISBN 13: 9781439112847
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352