Then, after a huge chat with God, who tries to sign Lestat up for His team, the immortal vampire joins Jesus on the way to Calvary, is given the true Veronica's Veil after Christ imprints his bloody face on it, and has a horrific tour of Hell, full of souls trying to wash away their sins. Memnoch, a fantastic altruist, fights God for the betterment of mankind, especially for souls in Hell who someday deserve to go upstairs to Heaven. But Lestat hears the Hound of Heaven chasing him, which is also Memnoch the Devil (Satan), who takes Lestat to Limbo, engages him in cosmic chat about evil, and tries to get him to join him as co-ruler in Hell. Lestat flies Dora by batpower to Manhattan, shows her the apartment full of Roger's fabulous relics and cash. The relics include a fake Veronica's Veil, perhaps 400 years old. All Roger wants is for Lestat to deliver some laundered cash and a trove of religious relics to his daughter, Dora, a New Orleans televangelist. Then surprise: Roger's ghost turns up drinking Southern Comfort on a Manhattan barstool beside Lestat.
Lestat is obsessed by Roger Flynn, a handsome billionaire cocaine smuggler whom he stalks for months and at last kills and dismembers. Rice's richly descriptive latest-the best plotted of the series-is less horror novel than a knockoff of Dostoevsky's theological battles. The fifth volume in the Vampire Lestat chronicles ( The Tale of the Body Thief, etc.) finds Lestat pitted against the greatest adversaries of his bloody life: God and the Devil.
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