Is the boy held captive in this Vatican prison cell a madman--or a monster? Either way, Lara's got to set Valya free. Without him, she'll never find the fabled Waters of Life and Death--and her lover, Tsang, will be lost to her forever. But even if she can defeat the deadly robotic Secutor that guards Valya's cell, and in the blighted Siberian wilderness survive a parasitic alien's murderous claws, in the end she will face the greatest threat to her survival and her sanity-- when she sees what her depraved nemesis Lord Vymes has done to her lover Tsang..
