Raga Six

* A Black Magic Commune operating out of a storefront in New York's East Village * A high fashion model's terrifyingly bizarre death in a luxury Manhattan apartment * A dignified doctor whose magnificent traveling companions are young women afflicted with a strange, terminal blood disease... RAGA SIX A Novel of Ancient Evil by Frank Lauria When Doctor Owen Orient, a prominent New York physician decided to renounce his practice and all the material comforts he had become accustomed to, his goal was to find a simpler, more meaningful existence for himself. But Orient was not like ordinary men. For years he had been studying the secrets of the Occult and, though he sought simplicity now, he found himself drawn more and more deeply into a horrifying series of events that challenged his scientific rationality, his occult powers, and the instincts and emotions that guided his manhood. The puzzle that began in a Manhattan black magic commune, eventually drew Orient to Tangier, Marrakech, and Rome, to a confrontation with an ancient ravening evil--a battle in which telepathy, telekinesis, and even sex become weapons in a frenzied struggle to the death--and beyond... "e;Hypnotically readable...Frank Lauria has written the most believable Vampire and Werewolf stories I have ever read."e; --William S. Burroughs For the first time E-Reads is collecting the seven novels in the Doctor Orient series in a new, unified format, and will make them available to readers all over the world. Written over a period of more than twenty years, the books narrate Doctor Orient's discovery of his own psychic powers, his continuing research and his efforts to expand and deepen his understanding of the hidden level of reality in which psychic events occur and the monstrous and terrifying uses to which such powers are put to use by those who regard humans, and humanity as a whole, as play-things for exploitation of their dark desires. Frank Lauria, the author of the Doctor Orient series, is also at work on the first new Doctor Orient novel in almost two decades.