{"product_id":"9780692724262","title":"The Well of Gilgamesh: A Wampyr Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Riveting, compelling and spine-tingling, from the first chapter to the last, it leaves the reader eager to read on.\"\u003cbr\u003e-John Lauritsen, WCCO TV Minneapolis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"In \u003c\/i\u003eThe Well of Gilgamesh: A Wampyr Novel\u003ci\u003e, a genre novel by Mike Powers, we are presented with a fast paced page turner that stretches back to pre history and brings us right to the present day with a brilliantly imagined and realized alternative sense of an age old myth.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Judge, 4th Annual Self-Published e-Book Awards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Publisher:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvolution is more than just a theory,\u003cbr\u003eand vampires are more than just a myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before the first humans ventured beyond the Fertile Crescent a pre-Sumerian tribe of naturalists discovered the key to perpetual life through artificial selection, splicing a new branch onto mankind's evolutionary tree: a breed of humans born into darkness, fueled by bloodlust, and living the lives of gods laying the groundwork for the earliest surviving work of literature, \u003ci\u003eThe Epic of Gilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThousands of years later and set against the turbulent winter of Minnesota's Twin Cities, \u003ci\u003eThe Well of Gilgamesh: A Wampyr Novel\u003c\/i\u003e is a briskly paced story that combines ancient mythology and a remarkable modern scientific theory into a vivid and stirring tale of one vampire's lethal obsession with a local musician and another's desire to repopulate the frozen metropolis with a new, deadlier breed of vampire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Powers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50075801551088,"sku":"9780692724262","price":12.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780692724262_p0.jpg?v=1784733788","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692724262","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}