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A high-concept spy thriller that pushes the genre into the 21st century. 'One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century' Stephen King 'Just when you think you've caught up with him on the curve, Charlie Huston drives right off the cliff, landing on a road no one else could see ... shockingly original' NEW YORK TIMES 'Among the new voices in 21st-century crime fiction, Charlie Huston is where it's at' WASHINGTON POST Skinner wasn't like other boys. He appeared to have no emotions, powered by reason and logic alone. And to the CIA, he's the perfect asset. An assassin they can programme and control. But now Skinner has been tasked with a new mission. One that will place him at the heart of a deadly conspiracy. Even for an operative with Skinner's off-the-wall skillset, it's a suicide mission. And Skinner begins to wonder if he's become too good at his job for his employers to keep around. For the first time, Skinner has to decide whose side he's really on. And if the price of his own survival is worth paying.
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."
"Just" "ask Joe Pitt."
It's three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where
Henry "call me Hank" Thompson once played California baseball, to
the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the
rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. But now Hank is here,
working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is
surely going to get him killed. "From the Hardcover edition."
Skinner--known by the name of the psychological experiment that
fostered his emotionless brutality--founded his career in "asset
protection" on fear. To touch anyone under Skinner's protection was
to invite destruction. A savagely effective methodology, until
Skinner's CIA handlers began to fear him as much as his enemies did
and banished him to the hinterlands of the intelligence community.
There's a bad vibe in the air. Every Vampyre in Manhattan feels it in their bones . . . and in their blood. The mother of all gang rumbles is brewing between the divided Clans of the city's undead. A battle royal for more turf that will tear the island from stem to stern. And just his luck, Joe Pitt is smack in the middle of it. A rogue Vampyre who shunned Clan life, Joe's his own man. Kind of. Thing is, there's certain people have a claim on his talents. When they need someone who's . . . expendable, they call on Joe Pitt. They're calling now. With war drums beating from the Hudson to the Harlem River, Joe's been dispatched into the uncharted territory of Brooklyn to seal an alliance with the Freaks - a Clan who more than live up to their name. But across the bridge, things go south with savage swiftness, as Joe gets swept into a murderous family feud between crazed Clans that will paint the borough scarlet from Gravesend to Coney Island.
"Among the new voices in twenty-first-century crime fiction,
Charlie Huston . . . is where it's at." "Huston reminds me of all my favorite writers-Pete Dexter,
Robert Stone, Crumley. If there is such a thing as compassionate
noir, Charlie has found it. He's a true marvel."
Hank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets. So when a Russian backpacker shows up in town asking questions, Hank tries to play it cool. But he knows the jig is up when the backpacker mentions the money . . . and the family Hank left behind. Suddenly Hank' s in a desperate race to get to his parents in California before anyone can harm them. Along the way he' ll face Federales and Border Patrol, mafiosi and vigilantes, extortionists and drug dealers, and a couple of psychotic surf bums with an ax to grind. From the golden beaches of the Yucata n to the seedy strip clubs of Vegas, Charlie Huston opens a door to the squalid underworld of crime and corruption- and invites the reader to live it in the extreme.
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