Pekin, oktyabr 1912 goda. Dzheyms Esher, ego zhena Lidiya, a takzhe pozhiloy doktor nauk, otkryvshiy v sebe strast k ohote na vampirov, pribyli v Kitay, chtoby proverit sluhi o poyavlenii gnezda Inyh. Razumeetsya, v pervyy zhe vecher, soydya s korablya, Esher vstrechaet starogo znakomogo ― dona Simona Isidro. Naparnika. Zaschitnika. Ubiytsu i hischnika, s kotorym oni tak mnogo preodoleli vmeste. Otkuda v Pekine vzyalis zagadochnye tvari, o proishozhdenii kotoryh pochti nichego neizvestno? I pochemu hozyain goroda ne vyhodit iz teni, a obrazy drevneyshih vampirov Kitaya slilis s rolyu bogov, kotorym poklonyayutsya v hramah? I, nakonets, kto ubil yunuyu devushku v vecher ee pomolvki?
Pekin, oktyabr 1912 goda. Dzheyms Esher, ego zhena Lidiya, a takzhe pozhiloy doktor nauk, otkryvshiy v sebe strast k ohote na vampirov, pribyli v Kitay, chtoby proverit sluhi o poyavlenii gnezda Inyh. Razumeetsya, v pervyy zhe vecher, soydya s korablya, Esher vstrechaet starogo znakomogo ― dona Simona Isidro. Naparnika. Zaschitnika. Ubiytsu i hischnika, s kotorym oni tak mnogo preodoleli vmeste. Otkuda v Pekine vzyalis zagadochnye tvari, o proishozhdenii kotoryh pochti nichego neizvestno? I pochemu hozyain goroda ne vyhodit iz teni, a obrazy drevneyshih vampirov Kitaya slilis s rolyu bogov, kotorym poklonyayutsya v hramah? I, nakonets, kto ubil yunuyu devushku v vecher ee pomolvki?
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