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Already Dead by Charlie Huston
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Already Dead

by Charlie Huston

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This book is a take on vampirism from the point of view of a reluctant vampire. Written in Huston's traditional noir style, it certainly isn't a book for people who are easily offended. The story revolves around Joe Pitt, a vampire who really isn't happy about it. He has few friends and many enemies. There aren't just vampires, either.. zombies (or "victims of zombification") are also found in the book, with lots of gory details.
I like Charlie Huston and read his Hank Thompson novels quickly. I think if I have a criticism of this book it would have to be I felt that Joe Pitt and Hank Thompson were essentially the same character. If I read more of Huston and find that his characters are all the same, I may not read many more... but that being said, it is a great hard-boiled, blood and guts, no holds-barred vampire novel. ( )
TheBoltChick | May 10, 2009 |  
It's surprisingly good. A completely non-romantic whodunnit novel with vampires. Perhaps a few too many scenes with excessive gore, but hey, it's a vampire novel.

It's a fast, fun fiction and now I'm all set to read the next in the series (No Dominion). ( )
crazybatcow | Apr 27, 2009 | 1 vote
1st edition PB, ST trade
grigoro | Apr 12, 2009 |  
- Joe Pitt is a vampire caught between many factions is present-day NY City. Because he doesn’t fit in anywhere, he walks a fine line in doing work for the ‘bad guys’ and the good ones. Oh, and they’re all vampires. Things get a lot more difficult when Joe is asked to take care of a possible outbreak of zombies and a missing girl, two different cases that might just be related after all. Gritty, and I’d call it noir if I knew a bit more about the genre… Joe’s a tough guy whose world is slightly bleaker than Harry Dresden. I *like* this guy... ( )
kayceel | Feb 24, 2009 |  
Hardboiled vampire's zombie investigation.

Joe Pitt is your archetypal loner private investigator, barring the small fact that he's undead. Which means he is stuck in the uneasy situation of trying to survive the attentions of the various local vampire clan factions. There are several thousand vampires in New York, which is a lot of fresh human blood needed for them all to stay alive. The clan power comes from controlling the supply and how humans can be used, and punishing the transgressors they discover.

When he is asked to clean up a zombie outbreak by one of the local powers his investigation leads him into the sordid life of one particular rich family, the biotech researcher father, and behind the scenes vampire plotting. Joe's going to get beaten up a lot, and there are going to be dead bodies.

He's got the style, although the dashes at the start of the dialogue can get pretty tedious at times.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2009/01... ( )
bluetyson | Jan 23, 2009 |  
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For Casey Allen, Stephen Bond, Steve Gardner, Chip Harder, Eugene Rominger, Bob Stear, and all the odd and brilliant kids I used to sit around basements and diners with, imagining strange worlds.
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I smell them before I see them.
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Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: they’re true. Only it’s not like the movies or old man Stoker’s storybook. It’s worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them. Just ask Joe Pitt.

There’s a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folks’ brains. Joe hates shamblers, but he’s still the one who has to deal with them. That’s just the kind of life he has. Except afterlife might be better word.

From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and he’s not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and he’s tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus that’s eating at him isn’t his idea of a good time. And Joe doesn’t make it any easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattan–it ain’t easy. It’s worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalition–the city’s most powerful Clan–and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl who’s gone missing in Alphabet City.

Now the Coalition and the girl’s high-society parents are breathing down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though. Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes down . . . and before the sun comes up.

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