The former bureau chief of U.S. News & World Report in Berlin, where he lived for five years, John Marks has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. He holds an M.F.A. from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and is currently a domestic correspondent at U.S. News & World Report. He lives in New York City.
"Fangland is the rare real thing. . . . It'll grab you and not let
go."
-Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
"John Marks has written the best vampire novel since . . .
Interview with the Vampire."
-The Buffalo News
"Love and death, sex and violence, satiric wit and genuine horror:
Fangland has it all."
-Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child
Former 60 Minutes producer Marks (The Wall) puts his experience on the legendary TV news magazine to good use in this highly inventive reimagining of Bram Stoker's Dracula. His na?ve protagonist, Evangeline Harker, a young producer for the TV news show The Hour, reluctantly accepts an assignment into the wilds of Romania to explore doing a segment on a legendary criminal figure, Ion Torgu. Evangeline soon finds herself at the very outskirts of civilization, and after hearing a missionary's account of a supernatural plague that affected a whole community in Africa, she's accosted by Torgu himself, doing an excellent impersonation of the vampire count. Her subsequent imprisonment in a deserted hotel also parallels Stoker's tale, but Marks manages to make the familiar fresh, so that even devotees of the original will find themselves rapidly turning pages and being drawn into Evangeline's fate and the stories of her friends and colleagues at The Hour. (Jan.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
"Fangland is the rare real thing. . . . It'll grab you and
not let go."
-Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
"John Marks has written the best vampire novel since . . .
Interview with the Vampire."
-The Buffalo News
"Love and death, sex and violence, satiric wit and genuine horror:
Fangland has it all."
-Keith Donohue, author of The Stolen Child
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