This book includes The Cross of Blood, an original novel by Jean de La Hire , translated here for the first time, and an all-new sequel, The Tower of Babel, written especially for this edition by Emmanuel Gorlier. In The Cross of Blood, a friend of the Nyctalope, Jacques d'Hermont, calls for his help because he and his family are slowly dying from of a mysterious disease. Leo investigates and discovers a new, deadly foe: Armand Logreux d'Albury, the so-called "Master of the Seven Lights," lurking in the Castle of the Cross of Blood. In The Tower of Babel, which takes place six years later, the Nyctalope crosses paths again with Logreux d'Albury and another of his arch-enemies, Engineer Korridès, while his son, Pierre, is on a perilous expedition in Africa searching for the legendary Tower of Babel...
