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Nobody lives forever. Not even a vampyre. Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan's Vampyres, he's definitely a dead man walking. He's been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a private eye, an enforcer, an exile, and a vigilante, but now he's just a target with legs. For a year he's sloshed around the subway tunnels and sewers, tapping the veins of the lost, while above ground a Vampyre civil war threatens to drag the Clans into the sunlight once and for all. What's it gonna take to dig him up? Just the search for a missing girl who's carrying a baby that just might be the destiny of Vampyre-kind. Not that Joe cares all that much about destiny and such. What he cares about is that his ex-girl Evie wants him to take the gig. What's the risk? Another turn playing pigeon in a shooting gallery. What's the reward? Maybe one shot of his own. What's he aiming for? Nothing much. Just all the evil at the heart of his world.
Joe Pitt, a private investigator in a world of vampires, is a marked man after exposing a secret blood source, forcing him into hiding in the city's underbelly. For a year, he has survived by preying on the vulnerable in the subway tunnels and sewers, while above ground a civil war among vampire clans escalates, threatening to expose their existence. His objective becomes finding a missing girl carrying a child prophesied to be crucial to the future of vampire-kind, a task he undertakes only because his ex-girlfriend, Evie, asks him to. The narrative framework appears to be third-person, following Joe's gritty existence and his reluctant involvement in a conflict that could determine the fate of his world.
The premise sets up a dark, action-packed urban fantasy narrative with noir undertones, focusing on a protagonist in deep peril. The description suggests a high-stakes conflict driven by internal vampire politics and a potentially world-altering prophecy. The narrative appears to prioritize gritty realism within its supernatural context, with a focus on the protagonist's struggle for survival and his reluctant engagement with larger forces. The inclusion of a missing person case with profound implications hints at a complex plot that will likely involve investigation and confrontation.
Page Count:
315
Publication Date:
2009-01-01
ISBN-10:
0345495896
ISBN-13:
9780345495891
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