The Dr Nikola Omnibus Vol 2

The criminal mastermind and 'man of mystery' is back. Doctor Nikola, an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination. The adventures of Nikola launched with the first episode of A Bid for Fortune continue in the three books collected in this volume. Nikola is suave but menacing dressed in " faultless evening dress, slender, having dark peculiar eyes and dark hair, and white toad-coloured skin." He lives in a bungalow on the Rue de Lafayette in Shanghai, with his perennial companion, the black cat Apollyon (named after a dark angel) – huge, baleful, gleaming-eyed – perched on Nikola's shoulder. " The heart of the series is devoted to the Doctor's convoluted search for a Tibetan process that will resuscitate the dead and ensure immortality in the living, and there are some hints that – unhampered by compunctions, armed with psi powers and blessed with a powerful experimental intellect – he may have reached his goal." – John Clute