false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167321241m/21277.jpg 21277 6 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 them<i>. </i>Just<i> </i>ask Joe Pitt.<i><br></i><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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. 1154196 book 27 12 2005 Already Dead (Joe Pitt Casebooks #1) total:806|5:205|4:383|3:178|2:30|1:10| 806 3161 1202 164 3 5 false false Sat Jan 31 08:16:34 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 12:41:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false true Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 13 15:40:17 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 12:11:23 -0700 2008 Already Dead varied significantly as I progressed through the book. Initially, I was simply flabbergasted by the pure awesomeness of a plot starring a rogue 'Vampyre' (Huston's spelling, not mine) Private Eye who exists in a world that simultaneously gives The Warriors a run for its ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 28 10:54:27 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 15 16:55:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 12:45:24 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 00:06:26 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 19:55:40 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 20:01:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 10:55:54 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 12:06:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 05:05:28 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 05:56:30 -0800 2009 1
I really enjoyed this book - the world of the many low-lives and seedy hangouts that Pitt, our prot...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 09:27:14 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 12:33:45 -0700 2009
This is a reread, as I wanted to refresh my memory before continuing with this series.

Already Dead is a gritty, violent, hard-boiled "noir" mystery, featuring Joe Pitt, PI and vampire. Joe is going it alone by refusing ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 06 20:47:11 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 20:47:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 09:06:18 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 05:35:17 -0700 2009
Joe Pitt is more of a fixer, a rogue vampire who tries to play between the lines of competing factions by making himself useful to all of them from time to time. He has an ugly past, a human girlfriend wi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 10:19:14 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 15:11:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 09:17:19 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 05:30:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 00:17:46 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 20:44:18 -0700 2009
I liked the first half of the book better than the second, mostly because I found one of the characters (a teenage girl) speaking in a voice that didn't sound as authentic as the ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 18:09:53 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 18:14:44 -0700 2009 I am very picky about vampire genre books - Anne Rice: like, Twilight: don't like. This one was nea...more...]]> 5 3 false false Wed Feb 20 11:12:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 11:13:06 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 21:23:03 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 14:45:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 12:06:30 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 16:05:30 -0800 2008
Joe Pitt works the streets of a very different Manhattan that has been divided into territories by the vampire clans that now co-exist with the human race. The dialogue is rou...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:38:40 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:38:40 -0800 2009 Already Dead is not for the squeamish. Even so, it surprised even critics who had never thought themselves fans of Count Dracula. Huston portrays a noirish, gritty, alter-Manhattan world, with political rivalries comprised of all sorts of vampires, even "revolutionary" gay and lesbian ones...

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Set in modern day, it's a vampire, detective novel written in a frank, noir style that was catchy and fast. Violent and morally questionable- just how...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=21277