Empire of the vampire

This beautifully written and illustrated fantasy epic tale tells the story of Gabriel de Leon. De Leon, captured and imprisoned by the vampires he has been hunting all his life as a priest of the Silver Order is forced to tell of his own history and that of the order he had given his life to. Its a sweeping tale of battles between good and evil, comradeship and the hunt for The Holy Grail, the last hope in the fight against the monsters of the night. This book has a wide girth but worth every one of its 719 pages, no words are wasted, its witty, exciting, thrilling and the texture of silk and velvet.