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Every Last Drop (Joe Pitt #4)
“[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...more
–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...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
September 30th 2008
by Del Rey
(first published January 1st 2008)
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I believe that many readers don't like this book as much as the rest of the Joe Pitt series, but I am very impressed by it. However, one must have read the three preceding books in order to get full value from this one.
Every Last Drop is the book where we really start to see more of Joe's internal life. Throughout the series Joe is somewhat of an enigma. We see only flashes of what really motivates him, and many times he hardly appears to be human. But the facade begins to crack a bit ...more
Every Last Drop is the book where we really start to see more of Joe's internal life. Throughout the series Joe is somewhat of an enigma. We see only flashes of what really motivates him, and many times he hardly appears to be human. But the facade begins to crack a bit ...more
From Society to Rogue to Society to really really Rogue to playing everyone's damn field, Joe just can't seem to find a niche and hang tight, lay low, stay copacetic. It doesn't help that his mannerisms err on the side of painfully sarcastic and violently anticipatory. No wonder he gets his ass kicked to the wilds, no, not Brooklyn again, worse: to stay out of the sights of the Clans that individually each want his head on any damned platter available, Joe goes to the Bronx, a sort of homecomi...more
Fourth in the Joe Pitt urban fantasy series set in a contemporary New York City about a lone vampire refusing to bow down to any one group of vampires. Joe doesn't care about anyone else's agenda. He simply wants to be his own man, um, vampire. But rogues aren't tolerated and every clan, society, enclave wants a piece of Joe for their own ends.
The Story
After burning all his bridges in Half the Blood of Brooklyn, Joe is in miserable exile in the Bronx. Even more of a loner—and alo...more
The Story
After burning all his bridges in Half the Blood of Brooklyn, Joe is in miserable exile in the Bronx. Even more of a loner—and alo...more
#4 Joe Pitt, Vampire PI - UF
4.5 stars
Exciting, exceptionally well written, violent & gritty UF. Set in New York City, where various vampire clans co-exist, not always peacefully. Each clan has its own territory, its own agendas, goals, and old grudges against each other. Joe Pitt, vampire PI, finds it impossible and more dangerous than ever to maintain his independence.
No spoilers - this series is highly entertaining and different from any other UF I've re...more
4.5 stars
Exciting, exceptionally well written, violent & gritty UF. Set in New York City, where various vampire clans co-exist, not always peacefully. Each clan has its own territory, its own agendas, goals, and old grudges against each other. Joe Pitt, vampire PI, finds it impossible and more dangerous than ever to maintain his independence.
No spoilers - this series is highly entertaining and different from any other UF I've re...more
One of my friends insisted I read some crime novels this Readathon, which I am normally very happy to do only at present I find the walls of gold-lettered murder-fests on the bookshelves a bit overwhelming. I've started a few and gone off them quite quickly. I need some suggestions, so if you have any fave crime authors please let me know.
So I cheated and read "The Penge Bungalow Murders" and also this one, which is kind of a hardboiled-detective-meets-vampire story. It's t...more
So I cheated and read "The Penge Bungalow Murders" and also this one, which is kind of a hardboiled-detective-meets-vampire story. It's t...more
This was a good chapter in the story of Vyrus-infected (translated: "vampire") Joe Pitt, but it stands out in my mind as the weakest standalone book out of the series so far. With the previous three, I felt like they were excellent books that would still be almost as enjoyable even if you never read either of the other two. However, this one relies extremely heavily on material in prior books, and it seems that its entire purpose was to set everything in place for the 5th and final Joe...more
This is the fourth in the series and is as entertaining as the previous three. You’d think the vampire-noir mood with the protagonist who thumbs authority in all its forms would be a tired cliché, but Charile Huston’s Joe Pitt is a likeable narrator, always quick with a sarcastic comment, always getting himself into trouble without even trying, always lucky or ingenious with his escapes - you can’t help but be drawn in and enjoy it, cliché that it is. In this world of vampires, clans and hard-co...more
I am a big fan of urban fantasy books. Charlie Huston’s Joe Pitt series is one of my favorite vampyre series. That’s vampyre with a “y” not an “i” because this isn’t Twilight. Joe Pitt is everything you want in a vampyre without all the teenage love drama. Every Last Drop delivers all the twist and double plays one loves to see in Joe Pitt book. However, nothing could have prepared me for what the truth behind the Coalition’s blood supply is. I found myself looking around my house and a moment...more
4th installment of the Joe Pitt Vampyre series. Manhattan is divided into Clans of Vampyres- all of which Joe has ticked off at one time or other, so he left. But he wants to see his old girlfriend Evie, who in book 3 got turned into a vamp and left at the Enclave Clan, so he risks life and limb again to go back and see her. Along the way he sees some old friends ("the girl", Sela, Phil, Esperanza, the Count), meets some new ones, and runs afoul again of his enemies (Terry, Dexter P...more
Joe Pitt reemerges from his exile in the Bronx to do what he does best – stir up trouble. With a new clan, the so-called Cure, disturbing the delicate peace between the other Vampire clans, Pitt makes a deal with the Coalition to find out if the new clan is actually close to discovering a cure for the Vyrus. But the plot takes an unexpected turn, when Pitt ventures to Queens to look for the source of the Coalition’s blood supply. What he learns changes him. And if people know what he knows, ...more
3.5 stars. Not the strongest entry in the series, but not awful by any stretch.
Life just keeps chewing Joe Pitt up and spitting him right back out again...and he's losing body parts in the process. Very disturbing revelations in this entry leading to what promises to be an all out war between the Clans. There is no good or evil side here. Each side has their own agenda, some simply being more despicable than others.
Joe is like Adam attempting to reenter the Garden of Ede...more
Life just keeps chewing Joe Pitt up and spitting him right back out again...and he's losing body parts in the process. Very disturbing revelations in this entry leading to what promises to be an all out war between the Clans. There is no good or evil side here. Each side has their own agenda, some simply being more despicable than others.
Joe is like Adam attempting to reenter the Garden of Ede...more
I had the pleasure of moderating a panel with Huston, Charlaine Harris, and Marjorie Liu last week at the ALA convention. Huston was a funny speaker. It was easy to see where the humor and likability of a character, even one as nasty as Joe Pitt, comes from. I got the feeling that most of Huston's work in the future will be along the lines of straight noir, not stuff with a fantastic element, but we'll have to see.
In this installment, Pitt is at loose ends up in Queens, trying to get...more
In this installment, Pitt is at loose ends up in Queens, trying to get...more
Book 4 in the Joe Pit series became better than its previous ones. Huston continues the fast paced, and violent story of the vampyre Joe Pit, and he just raised the stakes.
After returning from exile, Joe decides to come back from the Bronx a year later after the events in the previous books. And a lot has changed; Amanda Horde, the girl he rescued, has established a clan, but problems arise in maintaining it. She sent Joe into a mission, in which he discovers a great secret, that can b...more
After returning from exile, Joe decides to come back from the Bronx a year later after the events in the previous books. And a lot has changed; Amanda Horde, the girl he rescued, has established a clan, but problems arise in maintaining it. She sent Joe into a mission, in which he discovers a great secret, that can b...more
In which our protagonist tears down his entire world just to get back to/with the only person in the world he loves. Spoiler: It doesn't work.
This was the book, I guess, where Huston's noir roots really hit me - you like Joe, and you root for him, but he's not always (or even often) a good person. He doesn't always make choices that you would, or ones that are morally acceptable. Or sane. But, I mean, he's been telling you since the first book that not only does he live in the dark a...more
This was the book, I guess, where Huston's noir roots really hit me - you like Joe, and you root for him, but he's not always (or even often) a good person. He doesn't always make choices that you would, or ones that are morally acceptable. Or sane. But, I mean, he's been telling you since the first book that not only does he live in the dark a...more
I believe that many readers don't like this book as much as the rest of the Joe Pitt series, but I am very impressed by it. However, one must have read the three preceding books in order to get full value from this one.
Every Last Drop is the book where we really start to see more of Joe's internal life. Throughout the series Joe is somewhat of an enigma. We see only flashes of what really motivates him, and many times he hardly appears to be human. But the facade begins to crack a b...more
Every Last Drop is the book where we really start to see more of Joe's internal life. Throughout the series Joe is somewhat of an enigma. We see only flashes of what really motivates him, and many times he hardly appears to be human. But the facade begins to crack a b...more
This is what I thought was the last book in the Joe Pitt/Vampyre series, and it’s a book that I’ve had hanging around the house for several months. I mean, I like Charlie Huston’s stories, and when it comes to dialog, I honestly can’t think of anyone who writes it sharper and more effectively than he does, but the gritty, dark-noir novels he get tend to get repetitious. At this point, I was just reading this book to finish out the series and see how certain things that happened at the end of t...more
This is the fourth book in the series. I love the concept of the world that Huston has created- or rather how he realistically renders the world that we know with unexpected secrets. The characters are fantastic, the heros and the villains. I ranked this a little lower than the previous three because of some James Bond type concerns. On one hand, our hero's luck is bit too much like James Bond in the way that his enemies tend to talk and talk and give him so many chances at escape. It would ...more
There's another world in New York City, one that's its citizens know nothing about. Vampyres, those infected with The Vyrus live in clans scattered throughout Manhattan. They need to feed on human blood to survive. And vampyre Joe Pitt has been exiled to The Bronx. Might as well be in Siberia. But the island has an inexorable pull, and after getting roughed up by a Bronx clan and losing an eye (making him more like Andrew Vachss' character Burke than ever) Joe heads back home and into into a hor...more
To start with, let's establish something: this is the fourth book in a series. The series is about Joe Pitt, who is a vampire. At the beginning of the series, three books ago, he lived in Manhattan, and existed as a rogue, surviving by doing jobs for Manhattan's warring vampire clans, and always making sure that all of them felt indebted enough to him to keep him alive. A lot has changed since then, but the predominant feel--that of a gritty PI novel in an NYC setting, only with vampires--has no...more
Charlie Huston books are becoming automatic purchases for me - a rarity for a miserly fellow (in graphic novels - the equivalents are Trondheim's Dungeon, Azzarello's 100 Bullets and Carla Speed McNeil's Finder series)
Joe Pitt is a rogue vampire in the Bronx, no fixed address, no reliable source of blood and
for the first time since No Dominion's brief Harlem sojourn - a melanin deficient minority for an extended period of time
(the African Americans and Latino Am...more
Joe Pitt is a rogue vampire in the Bronx, no fixed address, no reliable source of blood and
for the first time since No Dominion's brief Harlem sojourn - a melanin deficient minority for an extended period of time
(the African Americans and Latino Am...more
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3.5 stars. This is a pretty good book, but this series is starting to become a little repetitive. How many more times can Joe get snatched, interrogated and threatened? A few new bad guys get introduced, but mostly Joe makes the rounds again of all the old familiar ones. Certainly don't start with this book - I don't think this it would make a bit of sense to a new reader.
This entry is darker (!) and has less humor than the earlier books. The ending is fairly satisfying, but there is...more
This entry is darker (!) and has less humor than the earlier books. The ending is fairly satisfying, but there is...more
I started out loving this series, but something happened during the 3rd book, I found that the characters (mostly Joe's enemies) keep making these long monologues; most of which are made when they should be killing Joe. This inevitably allows him to excape yet again.
I really want to know what happens and even though I'm almost done with this, I don't think I can do it. If I here one more character launch into another long monologue, I'm going to lose my shit. I think I'll go read so...more
I really want to know what happens and even though I'm almost done with this, I don't think I can do it. If I here one more character launch into another long monologue, I'm going to lose my shit. I think I'll go read so...more
Book # 4 in series can drag at times in terms of plot development. Certainly not the case for Joe Pit #4. Really enjoyed seeing all the groups/individuals ( Enclave, society, Rogue, Predo, phil, Terry, Hurly, Lydia, Evie, the count) all play roles and seeing the plot coalesce.
Has a feel similar to the Hank Thompson series in that I'm afraid Joe Pitt is running out body parts to lose/have beaten to a pulp.
Unsure if the wraith will reappear in the series or has it disappe...more
Has a feel similar to the Hank Thompson series in that I'm afraid Joe Pitt is running out body parts to lose/have beaten to a pulp.
Unsure if the wraith will reappear in the series or has it disappe...more
The fourth in the Joe Pitt casebooks, and Charlie Huston continues the ferocious, non-stop pace of the last three. I love the nihilistic bent the series has taken since Already Dead- the first of the books- but I wish that he would wrap up some of the storylines in favor of some fresh blood, pun intended. The books are very quick reads, and definitely worth a weekend for anyone who enjoys vampires, noir novels, or feelings of despair.
I'm not into the vampires at all, but the Joe Pitt Casebooks are really hard-boiled noir novels that happen to have blood-sucking characters, with New York City as the biggest character of all. In the first 4 books, our tough guy hero Joe Pitt has been driven out from his downtown nocturnal life to deal with wealthy powerful Upper East Siders, Harlem gangs, Coney Island sideshow types, exiled in the Bronx, and uncovered a secret in Queens. So I'm anxiously awaiting Book 6 hoping he'll make it n...more
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Warning: Do not even try to read this unless you read the first three books of the series. Every Last Drop depends on knowing every last facet of Joe Pitts and his very complex world of Vampyre New York and its many clans. However, once you get to book four you will be hooked and ready to read another gritty and blood-soaked installment. Yes, Joe still gets beat up on a regular basis and he still does his equal share of beating up. But I can see Huston is bringing this story to a head especially...more
I really enjoyed Every Last Drop. It was good to see old Joe Pitt start playing others rather than getting played himself. We're also starting to see his ruthless side displayed much more prominently than in past books. I should also note that the ending twist was a doozy! This book was not what I had expected based on the ending of book 3 but was a good 4th installment in the series nonetheless.
Hard-boiled renegade vamp takes some major beatings and gives some big punishment on the way back to his girl.
The writing is a weird mixture of what I call "thug lit" (staccato writing style, lots of blood and guns and torture, machismo) and vamp lit, but not always to great effect.
I can picture the author thinking about the film version the whole time he was writing the book.
The writing is a weird mixture of what I call "thug lit" (staccato writing style, lots of blood and guns and torture, machismo) and vamp lit, but not always to great effect.
I can picture the author thinking about the film version the whole time he was writing the book.
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“It’s not that fact of him telling me he’s not going to kill me that assures me I’ve got some time to breathe. Predo could look me in the eye and tell me whiskey’s good and cigarettes are better and I’d still need a drink and a Lucky to believe he’s not lying. The man breeds lies. He spawns them asexually, with no need for any assistance. He exhales and lies fill the air. Alone in a room, he mutters lies to himself to keep from falling into the trap of truth-telling. In the day, sleeping in his bed, deep in the safest heart of Coalition headquarters, he dreams in lies. The better to keep his left hand from knowing what betrayals his right has planned.
Stretched on the rack and burned with hot irons, Dexter Predo will be in no danger of revealing the truth. Living so far beyond its borders.”
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Stretched on the rack and burned with hot irons, Dexter Predo will be in no danger of revealing the truth. Living so far beyond its borders.”
