Dracula Chronicles: Death of Kings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781983902901)

Victor T. Foia was born in Transylvania where he studied theoretical physics at the Babes-Bolyai University. At the age of twenty-two, Victor escaped from behind the Iron Curtain and defected to Italy. After a waiting period of months spent in UN refugee camps, he emigrated to the United States. There, Victor graduated from the Universities of Illinois and Dallas. He then embarked upon a career as an international corporate executive, culminating in the position of CEO of an international corporation. Presently he is engaged full time in writing historical fiction. Victor's interest in Dracula dates from the age of six, when he first visited his compatriot's birthplace, only a hundred miles from his own. Soon this interest became a lasting passion for research into Dracula's life. Over a period of four decades Victor visited castles, fortresses, and monasteries throughout Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In doing this, he aimed to gaze beyond Dracula's iconic image and try to ferret out the essence of the man behind the legend. Victor's journey has taken him to virtually all the places where Dracula lived, loved, fought, and was imprisoned. In the end, by the empty tomb from where the prince disappeared without a trace half a millennium ago, Victor felt his journey of discovery was complete, and now the story of the real Dracula could be told.