Already Dead (Joe Pitt, #1)

Posted on 17 January 2017 by Charlie Huston

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 themJustask Joe PittThere 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. Download Already Dead (Joe Pitt, #1) Author Charlie Huston – kino-fada.fr I have a special fondness in my heart for NYC The Met The Chinese food The Strand The people zoo Especially the people zoo every time I go, I m reminded of Whoopie Goldberg in Jumpin Jack Flash saying, There s some funky lookin people in New York I don t often see the NY Huston writes about It s there, in the skinny dude doing junkie tai chi on the corner, and in the random clothing nests I might see stashed under a bench I ve been to the kiddie parks with kiddies in tow, but I conf I have a special fondness in my heart for NYC The Met The Chinese food The Strand The people zoo Especially the people zoo every time I go, I m reminded of Whoopie Goldberg in Jumpin Jack Flash saying, There s some funky lookin people in New York I don t often see the NY Huston writes about It s there, in the skinny dude doing junkie tai chi on the corner, and in the random clothing nests I might see stashed under a bench I ve been to the kiddie parks with kiddies in tow, but I confess I wasn t looking around for the pedophiles It gives me extra appreciation for Huston s writing, which has as much to do with the seedy parts of the city as the politics of staying independent among the Vampyres cabals And I confess I love seeing Manhattan divided up into vampire enclaves It seems so apropos This is gritty private eye hired gun noir, with a supernatural twist Everybody is working an angle, but Joe s just trying to get by He tracks a shambler zombie to a flophouse, killing it befo...In the footsteps of Jim Butcher and his wizard detective Harry Dresden the field of supernatural investigators is getting quite crowded If you want to stand out, to get noticed, you need an angle, a marketing asset Charlie Huston has the writing skills to make the grade, but I am only half sold on his approach It seems to rely heavily on ultra violent, explicit gore fest and some heavy swearing, especially in the first chapters The horror elements do help in keeping the reader glued to the p In the footsteps of Jim Butcher and his wizard detective Harry Dresden the field of supernatural investigators is getting quite crowded If you want to stand out, to get noticed, you need an angle, a marketing asset Charlie Huston has the writing skills to make the grade, but I am only half ...I m a man, does things, gets things done I m a handyman Someone has a problem they maybe call me and I maybe help to take care of the problem.Joe Pitt is not a detective He has no license or even an office Yet when somebody needs someone found, he s the guy for the job.A woman is going to call you today with...1977 NYC CBGBs ramones on stage some suit offers simon twenty bucks to let him suck his dick sure a mouth s a mouth simon pops off, and takes another twenty to give the guy a handjob guy pushes his face into simon s neck, bares his fangs, and bam instavamp let that scene serve as a microcosm of this sloppy pulpy drunken joyride of a book it s kinda absurd having all this happen at the place in the year seeing the band but it s also kinda so fucked up and fun we ignore the autho 1977 NYC CBGBs ramones on stage some suit offers simon twenty bucks to let him suck his dick sure a mouth s a mouth simon pops off, and takes another twenty to give the guy a handjob guy pushes his face into simon s neck, bares his fangs, and bam instavamp let that scene serve as a microcosm of this sloppy pulpy drunken joyride of a book it s kinda absurd having all this happen at the place in the year seeing the band bu...I liked this book It was a refreshing change of pace from the female protagonist romance vampire thing that has become a cliche of the vampire novel It was gritty and real, like a hard boiled detective story from the 30 s. Already Dead is a rollicking, no holds barred film noir vampire pastiche Main protagonist Joe Pitt is a Mike Hammer with fangs and no suntan As low vamp on the totem pole, Pitt gets it from all sides of the undead crime underground Picking no side and forced to do favors here and there for the various vampire factions just to survive, he is pushed into a job to find a missing girl which develops into a complex scheme that would make Phillip Marlow s head spin ...Unfortunately this generic vampire novel just didn t seem memorable to me There are only a few vampire books I actually like, and most others in the sub genre seem way too focused on gory shock value, pretentious characters and excessive blood It s predictable, it s typical, i...I loved this very original take on the vampire from Charlie Huston What s not to like about a Lone Wolf hired gun blood sucker like Joe Pitt Great details about the various vampire factions and families inhabiting the underworld of modern day Manhattan are also superb ALREADY DEAD is one of just ...This was really fun I like these genre twisting books This one is about a guy who works for the Vampyre clans of NYC These clans are usually competing groups who control the paranormal interests of Manhattan and greater NYC One clan, The Coalition, controls the area above 14th street, up past Central Park, to around 116th street Another clan, The Society, runs the area below 14th with other pockets of smaller clans, as well, through out Manhattan and the outer Burroughs These clans are com This was really fun I like these genre twisting books This one is about a guy who works for the Vampyre clans of NYC These clans are usually competing groups who control the paranormal interests of Manhattan and greater NYC One clan, The Coalition, controls the area above 14th street, up past Central Park, to around 116th street Another clan, The Society, runs the area below 14th with other pockets of smaller clans, as well, through out Manhattan and the outer Burroughs These clans are comprised of local vampyres and they keep the peace among the supernaturals and the humans.Joe Pitt is an enforcer but he has gone rogue and refuses to affiliate himself with any of the other clans But he does good work, and he always has one or the other of the clans asking for his assistance In this tale, he is asked by the head of The Coalition to find a local big wigs missing daughter The big wig is the head of a leading Bio Tech firm who is not a supernatural but is in the know on the sta...I hate to say it, but I m abandoning at 47% I ve tried, I really have, but this book and writing style just isn t for me I was excited to read it for awhile too love gritty, dark urban stories, enjoy hard boiled detectives, anything with vampires but the writing style has no chemistry with me It s present tense, chopping,...

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17 January 2017

Charlie Huston