Memnoch the Devil (Vampire Chronicles, No 5) 
Lestat is also being stalked himself, by some shadowy guy who turns out to be Memnoch, the devil, who spirits him away. From here on, the book might have been called Interview with the Devil (by a Vampire). It's a rousing story interrupted by a long debate with the devil. Memnoch isn't the devil as ordinarily conceived: he got the boot from God because he objected to God's heartless indifference to human misery. Memnoch takes Lestat to heaven, hell, and throughout history.
Some readers are appalled by the scene in which Lestat sinks his fangs into the throat of Christ on the cross, but the scene is not a mere shock tactic: Jesus is giving Lestat a bloody taste in order to win him over to God's side, and Rice is dead serious about the battle for his soul. Rice is really doing what she did as a devout young Catholic girl asked to imagine in detail what Christ's suffering felt like--it's just that her imagination ran away with her.
If you like straight-ahead fanged adventure, you'll likely enjoy the first third; if you like Job-like arguments with God, you'll prefer the Memnoch chapters. --Tim Appelo
Reviews
I'll admit that the novel was hard to sink into in the beginning, but there came a point sometime in the middle where her vampire hero finds himself face to face with the devil as he recounts the tale of Genesis from what he claims to be the true story, and I found myself utterly enthralled. It's an incredibly sympathetic view of the devil, painting him as an angel who could not comprehend the nature of suffering as it relates to God's vision. But all the while, there exists a distrust amongst the two partners, as Lestat questions the impact of what he's been told and the implication of a devil who could be more pure of heart than his God.
Some compare the dialogue between God and the devil in this novel to a debate between two philosophy majors. I myself don't see the problem with that. If anything it adds to the uncertainty of every piece of knowledge that we claim to possess, and nothing is for certain when the matter pertains to our Gods. There's already tremendous fear and distrust in this world when it comes to the nature of God and the devil and their relationship to one another. There's a grandiose horror in Rice's speculation that they know no more about the workings of this world than we do. An experiment gone wrong, if you will. Still, the characters are at all times long-winded and this book won't be a winner for everyone. If you, like myself, already had an acute interest in both philosophy and more importantly, theology, I think you'll enjoy this book quite a bit. Recommended to the interested for my part.