Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6 EAN: 9780345478245 ISBN: 034547824X Label: Del Rey Manufacturer: Del Rey Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: December 27, 2005 Publisher: Del Rey Release Date: December 27, 2005 Sales Rank: 17415 Studio: Del Rey
Product DescriptionThose 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 them. Justask Joe Pitt.
There’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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Great F*****g Book
Fun, Interesting, Great Characters, Great Story. Gives a wonderful logical cogent functionality to this world that includes vampires. (Also an accurate and fun portrayal of current Manhattan). Excellent to the very end and beyond.
Rating: - Stephen Huh's Book Blog Review
I chose Already Dead by Charlie Huston to read because of its front cover. The cover is very twisted. What I first saw was an unattractive blood-colored cover. As I examined the front cover a little more, I then saw a very bright and busy city along with a man smoking a cigarette. The cover still didn't tell me much and I didn't feel that the book was a "must-read." I scanned the cover once more and I saw a very sharp tooth sticking out of the man's mouth. After thinking about the tooth I decided ... Read More
Rating: - Kindle Specific Review
General Comments:
Already Dead is a dark but enjoyable take on the vampire story wrapped in a pretty competent mystery. Joe Pitt our "hero" is enlisted by one of the many vampire clans to take care of a zombie but complications ensue when the daughter of a bio-med company's CEO gets into the mix. To resolve the mystery Joe has to navigate the intersecting politics of rival vampire clans and resolve some of his personal demons.
I really enjoyed the story and Mr. Huston goes ... Read More
Rating: - Explosive start, but trails off.
Already Dead begins well enough, with tough-guy Joe Pitt tracking down someone called "The Carrier" in the seedy underbelly of a vampire-ridden New York City.
Huston sets the scene splendidly, quickly bringing the reader into Pitt's world and the inner workings of the vampire underground. Factions are at war while the vampires involved in those factions teeter on the edge of revealing their curse, here called "Vyrus" to the public at large. The world Huston conjures in this book isn't the ... Read More
Rating: - Vampire tales for a nihilistic world
Great book. Joe Pitt is a fantastic character. The writing is first rate. The plot moves along nicely. My only complaint (and its not big enough to knock the book off the five star rating) is that it is too short! Still, the author seems to put out sequels on such a regular basis that it doesn't really matter.
If you like your vampire stories to be relevant and contemporary, then look no further.
- Great F*****g Book
- Kindle Specific Review
