In a dark underworld, private investigator Joe Pitt moves gingerly among the hierarchy of vampire clans, tasked with competing interests by rival clan leaders.
When vampire P.I. Joe Pitt heads out for an evening feed, he doesn’t anticipate the run in he has with a gang of rough young vampires who give him a real hassle—not only do they outnumber him, but they’re tough as nails and then some. They drag him, literally, back to their minder, Alistair Lament, who has all kinds of evil in mind for Pitt—until an unexpected rescue that comes with a price. Pitt is asked to infiltrate an upstart Manhattan clan with a seemingly altruistic leader, Amanda Horde, a woman with ambitions to cure Vampirism.
Pitt’s visit to Amanda Horde is naturally complicated by Horde’s own need for the P.I.’s help. She can barely keep her boarders alive; how on earth do the other clans keep their members fed? Where is all that blood coming from?
Joe Pitt now has to navigate his way through rival vampire factions in a shoot-first, ask-questions-later atmosphere where the discoveries he makes shock him with just how awful one society can be to those less powerful than they.
Charlie Huston’s fourth Joe Pitt casebook (Already Dead, No Dominion, and Half the Blood of Brooklyn) is a dark and edgy noir crime novel with a vampiric twist. The tough-guy dialogue with touches of dry humor is what really makes the book. Huston pulls no punches in depicting this violent underworld. But despite Joe’s unhuman status, there’s a sliver of a heart of gold left, and when Joe makes an attempt to make amends with an old friend, the tragedy of it all is palpable.
Every Last Drop is a unique alchemy of horror and crime fiction that’s gory and fast-paced and full of surprises (be forewarned—you might want to pick something else for lunch break reading). While it’s likely that reading the previous three novels would certainly help readers place some of the characters and geography more quickly, it’s by no means necessary to have read previous Joe Pitt casebooks to enjoy Every Last Drop. So drink up.
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