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 Already Dead - Charlie Huston
 Already Dead - Charlie Huston ... They are the Vampyre, and their sole chance at survival lies in banding into Clans. Only Joe Pitt has gone his own way. The upside is freedom. The downside is there's nobody on his side when trouble comes around. Joe gets rough receptions from all the countless Clans shifting about on the island of Manhattan, but his current trouble is with the Coalition ? the Clan that controls the city river to river, from 14th Street to 110th Street. To make things right, Joe takes on his most perilous case: The daughter of a prominent New York family is missing, and her Vampyre fascination makes Joe the ideal man for this high-stakes job. With his ferocious style, Charlie Huston offers a thrilling new twist to one of our oldest myths.Newest Review: ... that he is hired by the richer Vampire group to go downtown and find a missing girl. It all starts off pretty normally when ... more ... he stumbles across three zombies trying to eat a student. However, things soon become far more tangled when the different Vampire sects try to manipulate the situation for their own gain. Can Pitt balance the warring clans whilst trying to find the girl?
‘Already Dead’ is a very interesting concept and it is this that made the book a good read. I liked the idea of a Vampire who happened to be a PI. In many aspects this is a straight forward Noir crime novel as our hero goes from beating to beating in an attempt ...more |
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Already Dead - Charlie Huston: Death Becomes Him (905 words)
by - written on 20/08/07 (Very useful, 80 readings)
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I have recently discovered that there is a section of readers that only read books that contain Vampires, or a variation of the Vampyr myth. Like me you may think, “Ok, a little dark perhaps, but they must not read that much?” You would be wrong, there is a huge amount of fiction written every year that contains Vampires, not just Ann Rice. I get the impression that there are so many books published on the matter that Waterstones should open a Vampire section next to the Fantasy and Science Fiction sections. If you chose to you could easily read 50 books a year all about the blood sucking undead. However, velvet wearing, thinly disguised romance novels do not appeal ... Read the complete review
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