Tale of the Body Thief is Anne Rices fourth book in the vampire series. Tale of the Body Thief is the story of the dumbest decision Lestat ever made. A strange man, named Raglan James, makes Lestat an offer that he cannot refuse. Raglan offers Lestat the chance to become human again by switching bodies with himself by switching their spiritual bodies into the others physical body.
Even though two of his close friends, Louis (a vampire whom he created) and David Talbot (his human friend who is a member of an organization similar to the FBI known as the Telemasca), warn him that this man may be out to steal Lestats preternatural body. Lestat is intrigued by the offer and sees James again about what he wanted in exchange for giving Lestat the chance to be human again. James merely wished to have ten million dollars for a one day and two night switch. Lestat tells Raglan he will consider the deal and they set up a meeting place if Lestat decides to go through with it. After this meeting Lestat visits with both David and Louis who once again insist that it is to dangerous to leave his body in the hands of someone he knows nothing about.
Lestat promises both of them that he will not go through with it, but his urge to see the sunrise again and just to be human again is to much for him to pass up. After the switch Raglan takes off with his body and Lestat is stuck with the weak human body which he does not remember how to maintain. After a near death experience with pneumonia Lestat turns to Louis for help. Louis refuses to help and Lestats creator, Marius, also refuses to help. At this point Lestat turns to his last friend and last hope, David Talbot.
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David agrees to help Lestat because he loves him and does not trust Lestats body in Raglans hands. They figure out that Raglan is on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. After David teaches Lestat how to spiritually jolt James out of the body and take it back over himself they board the boat. After a confrontation with James, Lestat recovers his body, while Raglan and David disappear. After Lestat searches for David for a few days he finds him back at the Telemasca Headquarters. David tells Lestat that he wants to be changed into a vampire and Lestat, who loves David is more than willing to comply.
After Lestat bites David he realizes that its actually Raglan inside of Davids body. At this point Lestat throws Raglan head first into the wall without thinking that the body is Davids, killing it. David then arrives in Raglans body and Lestat does not know what to do. After realizing how much he loves David, Lestat cannot bear to think about David really dying so he changes David into a vampire against Davids will. Eventually David forgives Lestat for changing him and they go to Rio together..
