Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6 EAN: 9780345495884 ISBN: 0345495888 Label: Del Rey Manufacturer: Del Rey Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: September 30, 2008 Publisher: Del Rey Release Date: September 30, 2008 Sales Rank: 27954 Studio: Del Rey
Product Description“[Charlie Huston’s] action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Half the Blood of Brooklyn
It’s like this: a series of bullet-riddled bad breaks has seen rogue Vampyre and terminal tough guy Joe Pitt go from PI for hire to Clan-connected enforcer to dead man walking in a New York minute. And after burning all his bridges, the only one left to cross leads to the Bronx, where Joe’s brass knuckles and straight razor can’t keep him from running afoul of a sadistic old bloodsucker with a bad bark and a worse bite. Even if every Clan in Manhattan is hollering for Joe’s head on a stick, it’s got to be better than trying to survive in the outer-borough wilderness.
So it’s a no-brainer when Clan boss Dexter Predo comes looking to make a deal. All Joe has to do to win back breathing privileges on his old turf is infiltrate an upstart Clan whose plan to cure the Vyrus could expose the secret Vampyre world to mortal eyes and set off a panic-driven massacre. Not cool. But Joe’s all over it. To save the Undead future, he just has to wade neck-deep through all the archenemies, former friends, and assorted heavy hitters he’s crossed in the past. No sweat? Maybe not, but definitely more blood than he’s ever seen or hungered for. And maybe even some tears–over the horror and heartbreaking truth about the evil men do no matter who or what they are.
Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novels
“In conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.” –Entertainment Weekly
“[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - getting less interesting with each and every book
As good as the first book was, I find that each subsequent one gets less interesting and important. With "Every Last Drop", Huston seems like a writer who is just trying to put out a novel to sell, rather than one to tell a story. Simply put, there just isn't a story here, or at least not one worth telling/reading. The characters have no development at all with any of these novels, especially not Pitt. He's just a carbon copy of himself from the last 3 books. Good story telling entails characters ... Read More
Rating: - Gritty
I thought I was back in the land of Mickey Spillane. Outspoken, hard riding,
bullet proof and with 3 days worth of whiskers. Oh yea, its Joe Pitt. Today's answer to Mickey Spillane. This is my second favorite tough guy with a very well hidden heart of gold. I just can't get enough of Joe Pitt. And did I mention he is also vampyre? Just to add a little more flavor to the story. This guy is rough, tough, and keeps on pounding to the end of the story. Give him 5 stars for a excellent mystery.
Rating: - Joe Pitt--Still Lost in Horror Noir!
The four Joe Pitt novels are extraordinary examples at stylistic prose and horror noir at their best. The casual reader should be advised that "Every Last Drop" is not a good novel to begin one's sojourn in this excellent series. In fact, each subsequent novel has become murkier and more entangling than the previous entry. Huston's free style prose is sometimes hard to follow since it is dialogue in real time with no indications of "he said... she said". But stay with it---it is worth it!
Rating: - A Sanguinary Experience
Let me first say that I love the works of Charlie Huston. All of his books I have read until now have been five star, rock-n-roll, pull-no-punches, burn the barn down, extraordinary works. His Caught Stealing: A Novel trilogy is one of my favorite series, and his Joe Pitt vampire stories, of which this is the fourth, are howlingly good. Yet I had a reservation about this latest book which I'll explain in just a sec.
For those of you running across this series for the first time, do yourself a favor and ... Read More
Rating: - Better and Better ...
This series has grown on me and each new installment gets better and better ... the characters are interesting, gritty and consistent ... the world they exist in continues to evolve ... I cannot wait for the next book, perhaps my biggest disappointment here as they only run about 250 pages each ...
- getting less interesting with each and every book
- Gritty
