The creator of fantastic universes of vampires and witches takes us
now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of
Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones.

He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours
his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal
plottings and religious upheavals to Europe of the Black Death and on
to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of
Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark
forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and
destruction.