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Investigating a series of bizarre bat attacks throughout New York City, scientist Nancy Joyce and detective Robert Gentry team up to uncover the source of these malevolent assaults. And what they discover is sure to keep readers pinned to their seats and clamoring for more.
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The word vespers in the title of this book is zoologist shorthand for vespertilionids, the family of small, insect-eating bats that includes the little brown bat. In the beginning of the novel, this ordinary bat, which normally never attacks human beings, is going crazy in packs and biting people in a suburb of New York City. An expert bat zoologist--in the form of an attractive but lonely young woman who works at the Natural History Museum--is called to the scene. One strange event involving bats follows another, and soon, a gruff but endearing New York cop is also on the case. They are called to investigate an enormous mound of guano in a subway under the city. If you know anything at all about the horror subgenre of mutant monster animals in the New York subway (think of the movies Alligator and Mimic), you know it won't be long before the lady zoologist and the male copper are falling in love while hot on the trail of monster bats--in this case, two of them, with 30-foot wing spans.
From the Publisher:
Author Jeff Rovin is the author of a wide variety of books on TV, movies, and cartoons. He knows the conventions of silly, scary monster tales, and spins them out adroitly in Vespers. The book reads like the screenplay for the inevitable movie: director Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) has plans to film it. Is it ridiculous and shallow? Yes. Is it fun anyway? You betcha. --Fiona Webster
"[A] smart, cinematic story...Unflagging fun, sparked by Rovin's energetic prose and strong visual imagination." --Publishers Weekly
"The attacks are vicious and bloody and the graphic images...[are] appealing...What's not to like." --Fangoria magazine
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- PublisherWorld Pubns
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0766998746
- ISBN 13 9780766998742
- BindingHardcover
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