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Zusatztext 41787107 Informationen zum Autor Cherie Priest Klappentext VAMPIRE FOR HIRE Raylene Pendle (AKA Cheshire Red)! a vampire and world-renowned thief! doesn't usually hang with her own kind. She's too busy stealing priceless art and rare jewels. But when the infuriatingly charming Ian Stott asks for help! Raylene finds him impossible to resist-even though Ian doesn't want precious artifacts. He wants her to retrieve missing government files-documents that deal with the secret biological experiments that left Ian blind. What Raylene doesn't bargain for is a case that takes her from the wilds of Minneapolis to the mean streets of Atlanta. And with a psychotic! power-hungry scientist on her trail! a kick-ass drag queen on her side! and Men in Black popping up at the most inconvenient moments! the case proves to be one hell of a ride. 1 You wouldn't believe some of the weird shit people pay me to steal. Old things, new things. Expensive things, rare things, gross things. Lately it's been naughty things. We've all heard stories about people who regret their tattoos. But I'd rather spend eternity with Tweety Bird inked on my ass than knowing there's a hide-the-cucumber short film out there with my name on it, and my bank account tells me I'm not alone. I've done three pilfer-the-porno cases in the last eight months, and I've got another one on deck. But I think I'm going to tell that fourth case to go to hell. Maybe I'll quit doing them altogether. They make me feel like an ambulance chaser, or one of those private dicks who earns a living by spying on cheating spouses, and that's no fun. Profitable, yes, but there's no dignity in it, and I don't need the money that badly. In fact, I don't need the money at all. I've been at this gig for nearly a century, and in that time I've stored up quite a healthy little nest egg. I suppose this begs the question of why I'd even bother with loathsome cases, if all I'm going to do is bitch about them. It can't be mere boredom, can it? Mere boredom cannot explain why I willingly breached the bedroom of a fifty-year-old man with a penchant for stuffed animals in Star Trek uniforms. Perhaps I need to do some soul searching on this one. But I say all that to simply say this: I was ready for a different kind of case. I would even go so far as to say I was eager for a different kind of case, but if you haven't heard the old adage about being careful what you wish for, and you'd like a cautionary fable based upon that finger-wagging premise, well then. Keep reading. Have I got a doozy for you. It began with a card I received in the mail. A simple card doesn't sound so strange, but the extenuating circumstances were these: (1) The card arrived at my home address; (2) it was addressed to me, personally, by name; and (3) I didn't recognize the handwriting. I can count on one hand the number of people who might send me a note at home, and I've known each of those folks for decades. This was somebody new. And instinct and experience told me that this was Not A Good Thing. The envelope also lacked a postmark, which was a neat trick considering the locked residential boxes downstairs. So it wasn't marked in any way, and it didn't smell like anything, either. I held it under my nose and closed my eyes, and I caught a whiff of leather--from a glove? the mail carrier's bag?--and printer ink, and the rubbery taste of a moistening sponge. What kind of prissy bitch won't lick an envelope? That's easy. Another vampire. Under the filthiest, most nonbathing of circumstances we don't leave much body odor, and what we do manufacture we prefer to minimize. That extra bit of precaution told me plenty, even before I read the card. It told me that this came from someone who didn't want to be chased or traced. Somebody was trying to keep all the balls i...

Product details

Authors Cherie Priest, Priest Cherie
Publisher Random House USA
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 25.01.2011
 
EAN 9780345520609
ISBN 978-0-345-52060-9
No. of pages 384
Dimensions 140 mm x 208 mm x 18 mm
Series Cheshire Red Reports
Cheshire Red Reports
Subjects Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy

Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, FICTION / Fantasy / Paranormal, FICTION / Fantasy / General, FICTION / Fantasy / Urban

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