No Dominion - A Novel

Zusatztext “Among the new voices of the twenty-first-century crime fiction! Charlie Huston . . . is where it’s at.” –The Washington Post Book World “[Charlie Huston is] a Bowery-bred Bram Stoker. . . . Joe Pitt is the sort of hard-boiled! one-liner-shooting character that readers of black-coffee detective novels and modern vampire fiction should embrace with a vengeance.” –The Examiner (Alexandria! Virginia) Praise for Already Dead “[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar! imaginative! and utterly convincing.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer “Vicious . . . a heady mix of noirish hard-boiled dialogue and East Village scumminess . . . a refreshing rejiggering of vampire mythology . . . The world that Huston creates is both brutal and vividly realized.” –Entertainment Weekly Informationen zum Autor Charlie Huston is the author of the bestsellers  The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death  and  The Shotgun Rule ! as well as the Henry Thompson trilogy! the Joe Pitt casebooks! and several titles for Marvel Comics. He lives with his family in Los Angeles. Klappentext Joe Pitt's life sucks. He hasn't had a case or a job in God knows how long and his stashes are running on empty. What stashes? The only ones that count to a guy like Joe: blood and money. The money he uses to buy blood; the blood he drinks. Hey! buddy! it's that or your neck-you want to choose? The only way to lay his hands on both is to take a gig with the local Vampyre Clan. See! something new is on the streets! a new high! a high so strong it can send a Vampyre spazzing through Joe's local watering hole. Till Joe sends him through a plate-glass window! that is. So it's time for Joe to gut up and swallow that pride and follow the leads wherever they go. It won' t be long before he's slapping stoolies! getting sapped! and being taken for a ride above 110th Street. Someone's pulling Joe's strings! and now he's riding the A train! looking to find who it is. He's gonna cut them when he finds them-the strings and the hands that hold them. The glass is breaking. That’s not the surprising thing; the surprising thing is that it didn’t shatter when he threw me against it. Shouldn’t come as a shock. This place, they went through a few front windows the first year they were open and decided it was more cost-effective to lay out the extra cash for the safety glass. Save them from having to replace it every time there’s a brawl in here. Which is pretty regular I’d imagine. Any case, I’m not bitching. Wasn’t for the guy who had the bright idea, I’d be on the sidewalk right now, my good leather jacket cut to ribbons and my face sliced up in all kinds of new and interesting ways. But now it’s breaking, it is most definitely breaking. I’m sure about that because my face is jammed up against it. The big question for me is whether this is the kind of safety glass that bursts into thousands of tiny pebbles when it breaks or the kind that turns into shards. Pebbles would be fine. Shards, not so much. The window creaks. Tiny fissures appear in front of my eyes. OK, time to stop worrying about the glass, time to start worrying about getting this guy off of me. I can’t expect any help from the bartenders or the crowd, not after they watched him pound on the bouncer with that pool cue. And I don’t see any helpful officers of the law rolling up outside at this point. Not that I have any intention of being here when the cops show up. So, I guess it’s just me and him. That’s OK, I can go this one alone. Not like it’s new to me or anything. I just wish he really was on PCP; if it was just PCP he’d be pretty easy to deal with. But this? This is gonna take grace and style, maybe even a little tact. He shoves my face harder into the big front window. People out on the sidewalk flinch as they see my features squashed ye...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Charlie Huston
• Editore: Del Rey
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.12.2006
• EAN: 9780345478252
• ISBN: 978-0-345-47825-2
• Pagine: 272
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Serie: Del Rey Books; Joe Pitt Casebooks; Joe Pitt Casebooks
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli > Polizieschi, thriller, spionaggio