Red Snow Author:Ian R. MacLeod SYNOPSIS In the aftermath of the last great battle of the American Civil War, a disillusioned Union medic stumbles across a strange figure picking amid the corpses, and his life is changed forever . . . In the cathedral city of Strasbourg in the years before the French Revolution, a church restorer is commissioned to paint a series of portrai... more »ts that chart the changing appearance of a beautiful woman over the course of her life, although the woman herself seems ageless . . . In Prohibition-era New York, an idealistic young Marxist is catapulted into the realms of elite society, and forced to assume the identity of someone who never existed . . . Red Snow is a novel of love and violence, ideas and dreams, and revolves around the mystery of a monster drawn from humanity's darkest myths which still somehow survives, and thrives, and kills, in this modern age.« less