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We'll handle it. That's what we do. We're Hunters.When a series of grotesque sacrifices and a car bomb send Doctor Vincent Temple to Germany, he can feel the darkness growing. Lord knows nothing's been the same since the Great War, but a decade and a half later things are only getting worse. As if tangling with witches, vampires, demons, and Nazis wasn't bad enough, the Prince's nightmares plague him worse than ever. Now, age is creeping up on him, he's the one being hunted, and the salvation of earth has never been so likely to cost his life.The final instalment of Vincent's story is here! Sink your teeth into a copy and savor the epic conclusion!

Russell Haley has been dubbed 'probably / The best Yorkshire surrealist writing in New Zealand.' The joke teasingly anticipates the tales in Real Illusions. These fictions range across specific locations (especially Yorkshire, especially New Zealand) but they also explore all of the 'dislocations' which lie between. Real Illusions is a book about migration--haunted by journeys, bridges, ancestral ghosts; mirrors and houses, families, coastlines, landscapes which have the disturbing familiarity of dreams. Events take place in that territory where history and imagination manoeuvre and collide. Each of the stories sets out from the point defined by Salman Rushdie in his novel Shame: 'As for me: I, too, like all migrants, am a fantasist. I build imaginary countries and try to impose on them the ones that exist. I, too, face the problem of history: what to retain, what to dump.' Real Illusions is a collection of strikingly individual stories but is also something more. Russell Haley has constructed a discontinuous narrative which seeks at every point for continuities--and he writes in a prose which is alert and supple, stretching its skin from one place to the next.