Dance with the Dragon E.F. Watkins

Dance with the Dragon

First Published 2003
221 Pages

ISBN 1-59279-052-6 (electronic)
ISBN 1-59279-933-7 (POD trade ppb)

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Amber Quill Press

2004 EPPIE Award Winner
Reviewer
Amanda
December 2005

When a cult's latest forced inductee is the daughter of a U.S. Congressman, they draw the attention of investigators who are about to discover evil like they never imagined. The charismatic leader offers hope of eternal life, but for whom? Strange ceremonies called communion leave the participants weak and with a gap in their memories.

Peggy Walsh desperately wants to get out, but living under Farkas' iron rule, she has no chance. Her only hope lies with a most unexpected person who plans on bringing down the false prophet.

This is not your standard by today's trends vampire novel. This is the best in psychological horror. At first, it seems like a study in the nightmare of cultic worship; then, comes the twist. The metaphor between cults and vampires is profound, yet not flagrant. This proves something can be scary without being gross, as is the norm for most horror today. Bravo.

 
 

Synopsis
Peggy Walsh, the teenaged daughter of Senator Dan Walsh, is kidnapped into a dangerous cult, the Church of Eternal Life. When the FBI tries to get her back and fails, the senator accepts help from super-psychic Dr. Armand Renascut. Renascut warns him that cult leader Stephen Farkas may possess real supernatural powers—that he and some of his followers may at least "believe" they are vampires—and that they can be defeated only by special weapons.

Although Walsh learns that Renascut was dismissed from a top-secret Pentagon program because of bogus credentials, he still hopes the mysterious psychic can help him mount another assault on the CEL compound and rescue Peggy. But can Renascut be trusted? Who is he, really, and just how much does he have in common with the cruel Farkas? Only one person knows—Kat Van Braam, Renascut's beautiful partner, who is risking her life daily to keep him "on the side of the angels."