基本信息出版社：Collins Crime
页码：176 页
出版日期：2003年02月
ISBN：0007137818
条形码：9780007137817
装帧：平装
开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
丛书名：The Saga of Darren Shan

内容简介 Synopsis
The allies of the night prepare for the final, deadly confrontation. Darren and Mr Crepsley will get more than they bargained for when they come face to face with the Vampaneze Lord. Evolution according to Darren Shan: human to half-vampire to Vampire Prince. The Saga of Darren Shan book 9: Killers of the Dawn. Outnumbered, outsmarted and desperate, the hunters are on the run. Pursued by the vampaneze, vigilante mobs and the police, Darren Shan, the Vampire Prince, is public enemy Number One! With their enemies baying for blood, the vampires prepare for deadly confrontation. Is this the end for Darren and his allies?
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Excerpted from The Saga of Darren Shan - Killers of the Dawn (The Saga of Darren Shan) by Darren Shan. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
CHAPTER ONE

WE SCURRIED through the tunnels, Mr Crepsley leading the way, Vancha and I in the middle with our prisoners, Harkat bringing up the rear. We said as little as possible, and I cuffed Steve into silence whenever he started to speak - I wasn''t in the mood to listen to his threats or insults.

I didn''t have a watch, but I''d been ticking off the seconds inside my head. About ten minutes or so had passed by my reckoning. We''d moved out of the modern tunnels and were back in the warren of old, damp tunnels. There was still a long way to go - plenty of time for the vampaneze to run us down.

We came to a junction and Mr Crepsley took the left turn. Vancha started to follow him, then stopped. "Larten," he called him back. When Mr Crepsley returned, Vancha crouched low. He was almost invisible in the darkness of the tunnels. "We have to try and shake them off," he said. "If we make straight for the surface, they''ll be upon us before we''re halfway there."

"But we could lose ourselves if we detour," Mr Crepsley said. "We do not know this area. We might run into a dead end."

"Aye," Vancha sighed, "but it''s a chance we''ll have to take. I''ll act as a decoy and go back the way we came. The rest of you try and find an alternative route out. I''ll work my way back to you later, if the luck of the vampires is with me."

We rested a moment, then took the right tunnel and pressed on, Harkat now in charge of the vampet Vancha had kidnapped. We moved quickly but carefully, trying not to leave any signs that we''d passed this way. At the end of the tunnel, we branched off, again to the right. As we entered a fresh stretch of tunnel, Steve coughed loudly. Mr Crepsley was on him in a flash. "Do that again and you die!" he snapped, and I sensed the blade of his knife pressing against Steve''s throat.

"It was a real cough - not a signal," Steve snarled in reply.

"It matters not!" Mr Crepsley hissed. "The next time, I will kill you."