Raga Six

by LAURIA, FRANK

• ISBN13: 9781583940433
• ISBN10: 158394043X
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Frog Books

Summary

In this installment of the Doctor Orient Occult series, Dr. Owen Orient, the psychic detective, cures a senator's daughter of a fatal disease and then goes underground to become enlightened. He ends up at a protest, where he meets a psychic child and a bookie. The bookie eventually hires him to deliver a package by steamship, and it is on this voyage that he meets Raga Six, a vampire who has been undead for hundreds of years. He falls in love with her, tries to protect her from evil forces, and hones his psychic powers. After discerning her real identity and witnessing the destruction she causes, he sets out to defeat her magically.

Author Biography

Frank Lauria was born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Manhattan College. He has published seventeen novels, including five bestsellers and the novelizations of Dark City, End of Days, Mask of Zorro, Alaska, and Girlfight. He has written articles and reviews for various magazines and is a published poet and songwriter. He lives in San Francisco where he teaches creative writing.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Phoebe Gloeckner	7	(1)
Prologue	8	(2)
Introduction	10	(15)
One Maylene Abellar	25	(9)
Two Celeste Quincy	34	(9)
Three Hector Gonzalez	43	(9)
Four Valerie Silverberg	52	(9)
Five Wahid Zahir	61	(9)
Six Phillip Tran	70	(9)
Seven Xavier Frazier	79	(9)
Eight Julie Lai	88	(9)
Nine Raman Pate!	97	(9)
Epilogue	106	(2)
Reading Questions	108	(2)
Recommended Reading	110