10-11-2006, 04:41 PM
Charlie Huston seems to be the new it-boy for noir fiction. He's got a series now about a young man who falls in with the wrong sort and becomes the wrong sort himself.
But in Already Dead, Huston takes a page from Jim Butcher's books and makes his hero, Joe Pitt, a vampire PI. Or Vampyre, as he writes it.
It's all sorts of new rules for Vampires still exist and there is a certain code about blood collecting they follow. The Vampires also have gangs and they've divied up New York into territories. Mr. Pitt is a rogue with no one territory to call his own.
When the book opens, he's cleaning up a rash of zombie appearances. They have rules for the zombies, too. But his clean up job is just a bit messy and suddenly he owes favors to the most powerful gang in town. He then gets caught in a web of intrigue and deception. It's noir. what do you want.
He eventualy sorts out the mystery of the New Zombies and the runaway (femme fatale) and has problems with his dame. It's pretty standard noir fair but the vampyre angle does give it a bit of a interesting twist.
But in Already Dead, Huston takes a page from Jim Butcher's books and makes his hero, Joe Pitt, a vampire PI. Or Vampyre, as he writes it.
It's all sorts of new rules for Vampires still exist and there is a certain code about blood collecting they follow. The Vampires also have gangs and they've divied up New York into territories. Mr. Pitt is a rogue with no one territory to call his own.
When the book opens, he's cleaning up a rash of zombie appearances. They have rules for the zombies, too. But his clean up job is just a bit messy and suddenly he owes favors to the most powerful gang in town. He then gets caught in a web of intrigue and deception. It's noir. what do you want.
He eventualy sorts out the mystery of the New Zombies and the runaway (femme fatale) and has problems with his dame. It's pretty standard noir fair but the vampyre angle does give it a bit of a interesting twist.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit