The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)

Lestat: a vampire - but not the conventional undead.

Vivid, extravagant, truly alive, Lestat plunges from the lasciviousness of eighteenth-century Paris to the Rome of Augustus; from the demonic Egypt of prehistory to fin-de-siecle New Orleans; from the Britain of the Druids to the frenetic twentieth-century world of rock superstardom. Pursued by the living and hunted by the dead, Lestat searches the world for his purpose, reaching through time to grasp the secret of his own dark immortality.