Birth of a killer

The highly anticipated prequel to the New York Times bestselling Cirque Du Freak series! Before Cirque Du Freak ... Before the war with the vampaneze ... Before he was a vampire. Larten Crepsley was a boy. As a child laborer many centuries ago, Larten Crepsley did his job well and without complaint, until the day the foreman killed his brother as an example to the other children.