Chapter 22 Summary

Benji lures a Drug Enforcement Administration officer to the room. He gave the officer a little cocaine in the hotel bar and told him that there is more under a dead and scorched body in their hotel room. When the officer hears Armand, he latches on to the man and drinks all of his blood. Armand needs more blood, so he dons the clothes of the dead agent and carries his body outside. He tosses the agent in an alley and then feeds on several more people for the next three hours. When he returns to the hotel, Armand is healed and looks normal again.

Chapter 22 Analysis

The chapter represents the reincarnation, or circle of life, of a vampire. Even though Armand was scorched by the sun, the ice encasement he was in kept him from dying completely. In other word, it slowed...