This book was all the rage when it was first released, but boy it has not aged well. The three star rating is basically due to the fact that it feels really dated because of the cold war aspects to the story. Harry Keough is a Necroscope, which means for all intents and purposes, he can communicate with the undead. Harry works for a secret branch of the U.S. government that is trying to infiltrate and discover what they suspect is going on with their Russian counter-parts in the KGB. It seem they also have a secret branch that is breeding vampires in an attempt to gain the upper hand against the Americans. The story is really good if say you were reading it in 1989. The problem is that the bulk of the story relies on the cold war angle, which anyone born after the year 1992 isn't going to connect with. If you can put aside the dated feel, then by all means give it a whirl. I just couldn't do it.