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No Dominion (Joe Pitt #2)

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Joe Pitt’s life sucks. He hasn’t had a case or a job in God knows how long and his stashes are running on empty. What stashes? The only ones that count to a guy like Joe: blood and money. The money he uses to buy blood; the blood he drinks. Hey, buddy, it’s that or your neck–you want to choose? The only way to lay his hands on both is to take a gig with the local Vampyre C...more

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Published December 26th 2006 by Del Rey

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Jun 14, 2012 Carol rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: UF detective fans

Shelves: male-lead, supernatural-mystery, urban-fantasy

This was the book that sealed the deal. If New York detective noir (with a vampire twist) is the kind of description that piques your interest, I strongly recommend this book. It's completely unlike most UF, nary a sparkle or wolf to be found, and owes most of its atmosphere to the Sam Spade tradition of the cold-hearted loner trying to retain some thin shred of his ideals. The plot appears to be a relatively straightforward investigation but has a whiz-bang reveal that floored me. When I realiz...more This was the book that sealed the deal. If New York detective noir (with a vampire twist) is the kind of description that piques your interest, I strongly recommend this book. It's completely unlike most UF, nary a sparkle or wolf to be found, and owes most of its atmosphere to the Sam Spade tradition of the cold-hearted loner trying to retain some thin shred of his ideals. The plot appears to be a relatively straightforward investigation but has a whiz-bang reveal that floored me. When I realized what was going on--about the same time Joe did--it was like a slap upside the head.

It starts with a fight. First the physical kind (a plate glass window is involved, naturally), then the girlfriend kind (the things we do for reassurance). Day in the life of Joe Pitt. Joe's been scrambling for work since the last book, as events covered therein have negatively impacted his employability. Eventually he heads downtown to hit up Terry and the Society for work, but Terry's right hand man, Tom, gives him the bureaucratic run-around. Terry comes through, and Joe goes to work looking for the source of the new Vampyre drug on the street. Philip, the Renfield snitch, provides information and a contact. Joe stops at the Enclave, then hits the A train up to Harlem (cue the Duke), right through Coalition territory. From there, he's just trying to survive in a hostile land as he tries to uncover the source. As usual, Joe's technique doesn't consist of asking questions as much as being beat up while everyone conveniently explains themselves.

There's an interesting parallel to modern drug culture in the Vampyre world Huston has dreamed up, and the organization of a culture built around its distribution and control. Huston uses many of the traditional routes people get exposed to drugs to excellent effect: those that fell into it; the counterculture deviant; the hoodlum just struggling to survive; the accidental dose; the transformation-seekers; the runaway; the victim; the upper-class dallying in extremes; the sycophants. It works for me.

While it's a violent book, I never seem to think of it as despairing. Perhaps it's Joe's affection for Evie tempering his dispassionate violence. Perhaps it's his stubborn independence in the face of powerful factions. Whatever it is, it has me drawn in to the series and already onto the next book.(less)

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Sep 07, 2012 Marvin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: kindle

If I ever get reincarnated as a fictional character, I do not want to end up in a Charlie Huston novel. Joe Pitt is a good example. In this second installment of the Joe Pitt Casebook, much like the first, Joe goes to a New York hell and back; gets beat up, burned up, tortured, passed around evil vampire clans like a ping pong ball and, unlike any other private investigator, still never gets to have sex with his girl. Joe is a vampire too and rather low on the social register. Yet what makes Joe...more

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Feb 16, 2009 Joshua rated it 4 of 5 stars

Typical of the Joe Pitt series. A good, indulgent, fast read about a 'fictonal' NYC where the vampire underground is making trouble for itself again. If you are into vampire noir/manhattancentric books, you'll enjoy this. The prose is tight, the characters just believable enough. The references to very real bars and shops in and around downtown nyc make it especially enjoyable if you get the references. i can't wait for the next one: Half the Blood in Brooklyn. I can't wait to see what holes Pit...more

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Aug 25, 2008 Gary rated it 5 of 5 stars

Got Blood?

Joe Pitt is the classic pulp fiction tough guy. Part private investigator, part leg breaker, all renegade. Joe Pitt is also a "vampyre".

Welcome to Charlie Huston's contemporary New York, a city where by night the undead walk among us, holed up in darkened Manhattan apartments by day. But But Houston's Dracula is about as similar to Bram Stoker and Transylvanian and bats as blood is similar to Kool Aid. Huston's blood-lusting wraiths of Manhattan are victims of an AIDS-like "Vyrus", al...more Got Blood?

Joe Pitt is the classic pulp fiction tough guy. Part private investigator, part leg breaker, all renegade. Joe Pitt is also a "vampyre".

Welcome to Charlie Huston's contemporary New York, a city where by night the undead walk among us, holed up in darkened Manhattan apartments by day. But But Houston's Dracula is about as similar to Bram Stoker and Transylvanian and bats as blood is similar to Kool Aid. Huston's blood-lusting wraiths of Manhattan are victims of an AIDS-like "Vyrus", aligned in cults operating in uneven detente in a twisted JR Tolkien nightmare society. Pitt, while living in the Greenwich Village turf of the politically correct and activist "Society" clan, remains independent, a rogue agent allowed to exist on the fringes of vampire-dom thanks to his rep for ridding the neighborhood of undesirables.

So following last year's "Already Dead", the tight-lipped Pitt returns, short of cash and more than a few "pints" low. It seems there is a new vampyre high loose on the streets of New York, wrecking some havoc within the clans. Pitt, desperate for work and in need of a new stash of hemo for the fridge, takes a contract from the Society clan's boss to track down the source of the strange and dangerous new drug. This leads Pitt to "the Count", a spoiled rich kid from Columbia playing vampire, complete with a trio of usually stoned vamp brides. Pitt's search for the stuff takes him north to Harlem and "the Hood" clan, home of the feared DJ Grave Digga and his Ecco Rhin-clad homeboys. With this backdrop, Huston spins a vicious - if somewhat convoluted tale - of inter-clan politics, setups, treachery and, true to the author's own rep, nonstop action. While "No Dominion" is not a sequel per se, it would be best to read "Already Dead" first, filling in some of the holes that Huston chooses not to repeat (at the risk of slowing down this episode).

Like his offbeat subject matter and anti-hero, Charlie Huston's lean prose, uncluttered by ordinary convention like chapters and quotation marks, follows no rules and, at least in terms of style, has no equal. Hip, irreverent, brutal, sometimes even thought provoking, Huston is not for everyone. But "No Dominion" is further proof that Huston, while unorthodox, is in a class of his own, and a very short list of today's top crime writers.
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Jun 20, 2011 Kathy Davie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: suspense, paranormal

Second in the urban fantasy series, Joe Pitt, a new kind of paranormal crime fiction. Yup, the name says it all—gritty, pulp noir about a 17-year-old runaway who gets infected with the Vyrus turning him into a vampire. Spending the first 30 years, few for a vampire that is, learning the ropes and how to survive in his new unlife. Joe decides to go it alone, as a rogue living a precarious life on the fringe of various clans' territories. Tolerated for his fairness.

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Feb 07, 2010 Kevin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Book 2 of Charlie Huston's Joe Pitt books was an excellent read with one caveat. You have to have read the first book, Already Dead, otherwise the players and intrigue make little to no sense. If you HAVE read Already Dead, then this is a must read. The hard nosed Joe Pitt continues to have troubles with the Society, the Coalition and now the boys up above 110th as well. We learn a little more about everything and everyone as well as the political dynamics of the vampire clans of NY. I am enamor...more

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May 10, 2009 Peter-john rated it 2 of 5 stars

Charlie Huston has another series of books (a trilogy) which consists of Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things, and A Dangerous Man. Go read those; they're pretty terrific. This is the second in his series about a loner noirish vampire sort-of P.I. who navigates amongst various clan factions of vampires who have territories in Manhattan, and it's got a Lower East Side attitude in spades, and not much else. There was an initial build-out of a mythos in the first book, but now in the second book, he has...more Charlie Huston has another series of books (a trilogy) which consists of Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things, and A Dangerous Man. Go read those; they're pretty terrific. This is the second in his series about a loner noirish vampire sort-of P.I. who navigates amongst various clan factions of vampires who have territories in Manhattan, and it's got a Lower East Side attitude in spades, and not much else. There was an initial build-out of a mythos in the first book, but now in the second book, he has to spend half his time recapping the mythos for those who came in late or can't be bothered to have retained the details of all of his warring factions from a book published several years ago. Then we have a decent chunk of space devote to dribbling out a little more detail on these clans and their relationships to one another, plus some foreshadowing of things yet unrevealed, because, God help me, this is going to be a saga now, and we can't be shooting all of our expository wad at once. Daddy's got mortgage payments to make, so we'll be stretching this out over many books to come. That doesn't leave a lot of space for a compelling story, especially since you have to sift it all through a Nick Tosches attitude. So I'll be holding back my contribution to the mortgage in the future, thanks.

And while I'm ranting, when the fuck did every story about vampires turn into a complicated saga about warring factions within a vampire society, all with a complicated backstory of slights and treacheries committed over the centuries that I'm supposed to retain to make sense of the plot? Here's a hint to all the creators who have one of these in mind: I watched the Blade movies because I find Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristofferson masters of camp. I watched the first two Underworld movies because Kate Beckinsale's ass in latex....sorry, I lost my train of thought there. I have no interest in the Twilight series because I am not scared of penises and fluids, so I exist outside of the target demographic of Mormon housewives, teenage girls, and women who dress up their cats for whom those books appeal. I don't read Laurell K. Hamilton because I don't need the fig leaf of a vampire to hide my desire for porn. But let's detect the theme....NONE OF THESE CHOICES ARE PREDICATED ON THE MERITS OF YOUR COMPLICATED POLITICAL SYSTEMS. I'm not interested in your Beirut-like construction of warring factions. It's just the blah blah blah in between the biting, or the Kate Beckinsale picking something up off the floor, or the not-fucking, or the fucking. Just stop, please. Vampire story: one vampire, he/she bites people, it's a metaphor for sex, good people kill the vampire at the end so we can valorize repression. It's not fucking rocket science, people.(less)

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Jun 02, 2009 Neil rated it 4 of 5 stars

Joe Pitt returns for his second adventure, and author Huston continues to build his hard-boiled Manhattan vampire mythos. This time Joe is on the hunt for the origins of a volatile drug derived from the vampire Vyrus and the trail points uptown to Harlem. As a rogue who refuses to ally with any of the battling vampire clans, Joe runs the gauntlet as he crosses town on the A train.

Huston does a great job of continuing to develop the antagonisms and history between the clans he introduced in the...more

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Jul 06, 2009 Ryun rated it 5 of 5 stars

I’d like to start this review with an exhortation to the horror-tinged-detective-novel-written-in-the-first-person-buying public: Drop that crappy Laurell K. Hamilton book and get on the Charlie Huston train!

With ALREADY DEAD, Huston took his already keen noir skills into the supernatural realm, populating Manhattan with a patchwork of rival “vampyre” clans and doing away with quotation marks altogether. His protagonist – undead sad-sack private eye Joe Pitt – was introduced with macabre magnifi...more

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Jan 24, 2011 Matt rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: hardboiled

Joe Pitt, vampire PI (well, kind of), is short on cash and short on blood. He drops by the HQ of the East Village's vampire Clan, the Society, to see if they've got any jobs for him. You may be shocked to find out that they *do* have a job for him: Joe must investigate a new drug that is affecting the vampire community.

OK, the premise is a bit cliched (for the 2000s anyway): urban vampire mashed up with detective noir. But it's done well. Huston's sparse style makes the words leap off the page....more

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Dec 17, 2011 Tiffany rated it 5 of 5 stars

Charlie Houston writes like the most action-fueled action film. The break-neck pace of his stories make his books hard to put down, and fun to read. I'm so in love with the Hang Thompson trilogy, that I want to read everything he writes. When I learned he had a vampyre series, I admit I was somewhat skeptical, but boy was I wrong!

He's taken an old legend, and breathed new life into the genre. Instead of sparkly pretty boys, or vamps that write in their diaries, we get gangster vamps that drink,...more

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Oct 05, 2011 Gabriel rated it 3 of 5 stars

If you asked me last night - when I read the last 60 some pages in one or two sittings - I would have said this was an awesome book and had lots of great urban noir style that The Dresden Files can only dream of. Even as late as this morning I was recommending this book as a great addition to the growing vampire (spelled vampyre in this book for no good reason at all) collection.

But right now, I don't remember much of it.

So, yeah, we have our Joe Pitt - cooler-than-thou vampire PI without any w...more

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Nov 01, 2009 Ladiibbug rated it 4 of 5 stars

#2 Joe Pitt Casebooks (Vampire - UF) (Books Free.com rental)

Joe Pitt, sometimes PI and vampire, is attacked in a bar by a fellow vampire who is high on drugs. What is this new drug that achieves the impossible -- breaking through the vampire virus and allowing the user to not only get high, but to go temporarily crazy and out of control?

Joe is low on money and his blood supply has dwindled, so he reluctantly agrees to investigate. Joe must travel through Manhattan's various vampire clan and coal...more

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Dec 24, 2009 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: crime-drama, mystery, suspense-thriller, vampires

So, I got this book from the library rather than loading it onto my Kindle. These apparently aren't chapter books, but plot breaks are there, which is helpful. Still no quotation marks. Then again, I don't think Joe Pitt is the kinda guy who worries about proper grammar and punctuation. It fits.

Another gritty, violent installment in the Joe Pitt Casebooks series. There are a lot of parts in the book that, if I were watching the movie based on the book, I'd be covering my eyes to keep from watchi...more

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Oct 16, 2011 Stephanie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, horror, noir, paranormal, read-in-2011

Joe Pitt gets mixed up in a nasty double-cross and, as usual, he's on the losing end of it...

There is a new drug going around the Island of Manhattan and it's causing havoc among the newly converted. Seems that this drug is the only way for a Vampyre to get high, or at least feel the high they did before the Vyrus. Terry Bird, head of The Society, asks Joe to "look into it" and find out where it's coming from and who's dealing it. This mission leads Joe on a journey Uptown which means he has to...more

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Apr 22, 2013 Ross Cumming rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The second in Charlie Huston's, Joe Pitt series about the rogue gumshoe detective , who also happens to be a vampire who plies his trade on the streets of Manhattan, in a world mostly hidden from 'Joe public'.
In this novel Joe is short on cash and fresh blood, so goes looking for work that can hopefully reward him with both. When he is employed by Terry his old friend and leader of one of the Vampire Clans, The Society, to investigate a new 'drug' that's making vampires high, it seems fairly st...more

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Jan 06, 2013 Maduck831 rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: completed-joe-pitt-series

Liked this one more than the first one (feels more "established"), but would rank it more at 3.5 stars. However, going with 4 stars because despite not necessarily loving it (i feel it could be more fleshed out, maybe a bit longer, these are extremely quick and easy reads, I almost feel as if certain history/plot developments are being kept out of these novels so they can be included in later books, I feel after two (2) books we should know a lot more considering everything that Pitt has gone th...more

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Apr 27, 2012 Leslee rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: vampires, urban-fantasy

Right after the noir goodness of Already Dead I dive back into the hard knock life of Joe Pitt - who has a girlfriend that he loves who is eventually going to die of aids, has made an enemy out of one of the most powerful vampyres in New York, and now finds himself in the middle of a turf war, driven by an exciting new drug that has made its way onto the Vampyre scene.

I liked the beginning of this book more than the end. The idea of a powerful vampyre drug that is making them act crazy is neat,...more

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Aug 27, 2011 Natasha Masunaga rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: vampires

I think I'm liking the punchlines at the end of the stories. I may not like the journey that takes me there (wading through Digga's dialogue was a trial in itself, though oddly as a character, I admit I liked him) but sometimes I find I'm sitting there thinking about how predictable the storyline is when at the eleventh hour the author dangles the carrot in front of my nose with a little nugget of "wait, wait, what's this? Follow me into the next book to find out".

Basically Daniel of the Enclave...more

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Apr 04, 2011 Kristi rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really like Huston's writing style. I read his Hank Thompson series first and still LOVE it and then I read the first Joe Pitt book. It took me a while to get around to this one not because the first wasn't great but because I've got so much on my TBR list.

This book did not disappoint. I really like Huston's version of vampires. I like how he delves into the vampire society and politics. It's rough, gritty and not in the least bit glamorous and he makes it work really well. I thoroughly enjoye...more

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Jan 27, 2010 Ian Mathers rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010

So far I seem incapable of reading these books in less than a sitting or two, which is kind of nice. I think I actually liked this a little bit better than Already Dead; you get to see more of Joe's world, and with a lot of the scene-setting accomplished by the first novel Huston stretches out a little. The revelations about the virus that causes vampires (Huston's dumb-ass alternate spelling of both terms is just about the only thing I DON'T like about his work so far) skirt the edge of making...more

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Feb 26, 2009 Jake rated it 4 of 5 stars

Nobody writes popcorn fiction like Charlie.

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May 05, 2009 Julie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Second book in the Joe Pitt vampyre series. Another good series with just enough of the Charlie Huston creepiness that caught my attention in his other series. In this one, Joe actually bites someones' eye out...creepy. I like that his character is interacting more with his mortal girlfriend and hope that Charlie Huston explores that relationship more in the next book. Maybe Joe will finally tell her what he is and save her from AIDS (by infecting her with the vamprye virus, which will cure her...more

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May 08, 2013 Linda D. rated it 4 of 5 stars

I read Already Dead awhile back (it was actually the first story I read entirely on my phone, ha!) but it was easy to jump back into this fantastic, gritty world created by Charlie Huston. I just love the divisions of NYC into vampire factions and how he mentions so many familiar places (which made me squee with joy! All the subway scenes = win). Each faction is "ruled" quite differently and the political parallels are obvious; these clans are so close to war and the tension is ramped up through...more

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Aug 18, 2011 Brandy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favoritos-uf

Sin dominio es la continuación de ya estamos muertos, una novela de cine negro, con Joe Pitt (un antiguo punk, con algunos amigos y muchos mas enemigos de los que el quisiera) como nuestro antihéroe de esta trepidante serie de libros. Ahora enfrascado en descubrir de que va eso que haya una droga que pone a los vampiros hasta arriba, cosa que no le importa demasiado sino es por que anda mas bien justo de efectivo y de lo otro que guarda en esa nevera, bueno y que acaba de tener que sacar a uno d...more Sin dominio es la continuación de ya estamos muertos, una novela de cine negro, con Joe Pitt (un antiguo punk, con algunos amigos y muchos mas enemigos de los que el quisiera) como nuestro antihéroe de esta trepidante serie de libros. Ahora enfrascado en descubrir de que va eso que haya una droga que pone a los vampiros hasta arriba, cosa que no le importa demasiado sino es por que anda mas bien justo de efectivo y de lo otro que guarda en esa nevera, bueno y que acaba de tener que sacar a uno de ellos de un bar.
Conocí esta serie por accidente, como se descubren las grandes cosas, vaya que un día Brandy apareció con un libro con una portada que me recordaba a los “inolvidables” libros de “White Wolf” de mundo de tinieblas (aquellos que los hayan “leído” seguro que entenderán lo de inolvidable) con un “tienes que leerte esto, es buenísimo” a lo cual, tras ver la portada no muy afortunada de ese primer libro pensé “vale ya veras una de esas novelas románticas en la cual le han cambiado el kilt al highlander por unos piños superdesarrolados y una leve fotofobia y ala soy un autor superinnovador “ para mi sorpresa Ya estamos muertos fue todo un descubrimiento y una decepción por no poder meterme con mi chica.
Encontré un enfoque actual y nada barroco de unos vampiros que van tirando agrupados en clanes (no por linaje a lo White Wolf, sino mas bien por creencias de cómo ir tirando o por simple conveniencia) y con un funcionamiento mas parecido a las familias de gangsters que a los tan desgastados consejos de ancianos, o el superfampiro de turno que acojona a todos los demás para hacer lo que diga o a cualquiera de las 500 ideas demasiado trilladas que tenemos un poco demasiado vistas ya.
Si el primer libro fue una grata lectura que duro una sola tarde, no por ser muy breve sino por que no había manera de dejar el libro, este segundo continua esa línea, tenemos a nuestro protagonista, mas un “fixer” que un detective, (un Sr. Lobo a la Pulp fiction) mucho humo, bajos fondos, algo de alcohol barato, un lenguaje acorde a los lugares donde se desarrolla, nuestro pobre prota puteado de lado a lado cobrando mas que un peaje de Barcelona en hora punta, un ritmo trepidante y una trama extremadamente bien hilada y donde poco acaba siendo lo que parece y donde muchos acaban haciendo lo que otro quiere, creyendo que es idea suya. Y que acaba abriendo nuevas cuestiones sobre cosas que se dan por sentadas en el mundo que se describe en estos libros que no hace sino prometer más entregas y horas de sueño perdidas.
Si te gusto “Sin City” o ya leíste el primer libro de este autor. Si “Pulp Fiction” te gusto,
O si los libros Harry Dresden están en tu estantería, en estos libros hallaras una lectura fresca y trepidante que no puedes dejar pasar. Y si no, nunca es demasiado tarde para empezar.(less)

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Oct 12, 2010 Julie Davis rated it 3 of 5 stars

Joe Pitt is Charlie Huston's noir-ish, smart talking, tough, vampire private eye. Of sorts. He's asked to find out what drug new vampires are taking that makes them freak out in a completely destructive way (to them and to anyone or anything nearby). Personally, he's also grappling with his girlfriend Evie's request that he donate blood as her HIV infection is taking on a new, dangerous level of activity. She's not a vampire and doesn't know that Joe is ... so things are naturally a bit strained...more

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Nov 02, 2010 Reed rated it 3 of 5 stars

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May 19, 2010 Maddy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2007-reads

PROTAGONIST: Joe Pitt, vampire
SETTING: New York City
SERIES: #2 of 2
RATING: 3.75

How do you like your vampires? Do you want them swishing around in long black capes with bad hairdos? Do you want the fangs to be long and menacing, or do you prefer a more discreet dentation? George Hamilton or Tom Cruise? If any of these are your preference, then you are going to be out of luck when you read NO DOMINION by Charlie Huston. His vampires act and look very much like normal people. There's no one going a...more PROTAGONIST: Joe Pitt, vampire
SETTING: New York City
SERIES: #2 of 2
RATING: 3.75

How do you like your vampires? Do you want them swishing around in long black capes with bad hairdos? Do you want the fangs to be long and menacing, or do you prefer a more discreet dentation? George Hamilton or Tom Cruise? If any of these are your preference, then you are going to be out of luck when you read NO DOMINION by Charlie Huston. His vampires act and look very much like normal people. There's no one going around salivating at a juicy looking neck. The only thing that makes them different from me (and maybe you) is that they cannot tolerate sunlight, and they have a need for a pint of blood every few days.

Joe Pitt is down to a few pints, and so he desperately needs a job to replenish his supply of both blood and money. New York City is inhabited by a group of vampire clans. Joe is considered to be a "rogue" with no defined affiliation. The one clan with which he does not associate is the "Coalition". And the job that he gets brings him deep into their territory. Someone is circulating a blood product that is killing off new vampire members. After an intense high, they go bonkers and die. Joe uncovers the source of the supply, a blood product called "anathema" which is created by deliberately infecting a target and immediately withdrawing their blood while the infection is fresh.

Despite the fact that Joe is a violent man who doesn't hesitate to do what needs to be done, he also has several admirable characteristics, including love and loyalty to his non-vampire girlfriend, Edie, who has problems of her own. She is suffering a decline in health due to the HIV virus. When she asks Joe to find out if he has her blood type, he is very conflicted about how to support her. Obviously, he cannot donate his blood—he is infected with the Vyrus and cannot admit to her what he truly is.

I was very surprised to find how much I enjoyed the premise of NO DOMINION, as I am not a fan of anything supernatural at all. I would never have thought that I would like a vampire book. But Huston presents these individuals as human beings, not stereotypes. He completely avoids the clichés of the vampire genre, and adds in dollops of humor with some of the best dialogue I've read in a while. My issue with the book had to do with the level of violence against animals and humans. As the book progressed, that violence became more and more prevalent and more and more graphic. The end result was that my sympathy for Joe and his plight was negated.

Huston, very much like Eric Garcia of the dinosaur detective series, has taken a chance in writing books featuring such unusual characters. Leaving the violence out of it, I felt that he succeeded. He has taken the romantic sensibility of the vampire mythology and transformed it into a contemporary urban noir tale. I'm a big fan of his Hank Thompson trilogy. NO DOMINION, along with his first vampire book, ALREADY DEAD, just go to show that you can't beat Huston for originality.

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Jan 09, 2010 Matthew Stepp rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Sep 15, 2009 Thomas rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror, dark, sequel

Charlie Huston has a voice all his own. He’s clearly a noir writer, and clearly has an ear for dialogue. I’m a fan of Ed Gorman for the same reasons, but Charlie Huston makes Ed Gorman look like Dr. Seuss, because Charlie Huston writes about some bad-ass sons-of-bitches. Joe Pitt, a Vampyre in New York City, is one of those SOBs.

Huston introduced us to Joe Pitt in Already Dead, and he sort of introduced us to him in the Hank Thompson trilogy, since the main characters in both series are very muc...more

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“--Tell them to drop their guns and fuck off out of my way.
--Allow him to--
I clamp my arm tight.
--That's not what I said.
She gets it right this time.
--Drop your guns and fuck off out of his way.
They drop their guns and fuck off out of my way.” — 1 person liked it

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