Every Last Drop: A Novel
by Charlie Huston
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Author: Charlie HustonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-30
ISBN: 0345495888
Number of pages: 252
Publisher: Del Rey
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Book Review: The New "Vein" of Pulp Style
Summary: 5 Stars
Take the unlikely combination of Elmore Leonard and Bram Stoker and you get Charlie Huston and Joe Pitt, Huston's vampire-heavy who prowls the streets of New York City's boroughs in "Every Last Drop", the fourth installment of the most hip, irreverent, and darkly innovative crime fiction to hit the shelves since Raymond Chandler.
In this go around, after burning bridges with all the undead folks who matter in the various tribes of Manhattan, Pitt is exiled to the wild and unaffiliated wastelands of the Bronx and Queens, where untamed vampire gangs stalk home-bound Yankees fans, their blatant feedings threatening to expose the undead's existence to the world at large. Pitt's misfortune puts him in the hands of the abominable "Lament", an ancient and nefarious villain who corrupts and runs bands of vampire youth in the Bronx, to be rescued - in a fashion - by his old nemesis, Dexter Predo of the upscale "Coalition" clan. Predo tasks Pitt with penetrating the upstart "Cure", headed by the brilliant and uninfected Amanda Horde, the young debutante rescued by Pitt in the first installment of this off-the-wall series. But Pitt has his own agenda - getting back to his familiar streets of Manhattan, and finding the fate of girlfriend Evie left in the "care" of the frighteningly surreal "Enclave" at the conclusion of "Half the Blood in Brooklyn." Before this one wraps up, Pitt has discovered a horror unspeakable evil, evil even as defined within the context of this Tolkien-like nightmare world of vampire clans co-existing peacefully - well, mostly peacefully - with New York's straight citizens. Pitt's discovery leaves the clans are on the verge of war, and Pitt with a few less pieces than when he started all the fun.
OK, so in reading this review, if you're not familiar with Huston's Joe Pitt, you are probably thinking "what the Hell is this idiot talking about?" And indeed, "Every Last Drop" is definitely NOT the place to start this provocative and insightful series that parodies not only the obvious horror fare, but also a wide diversity of topics from social progressiveness to Wall Street greed. The transformation of the series is fascinating - from the blood-heavy "Already Dead", entrenched in vampire lore, to this one, in which the whole vampire-shtick is almost incidental to a story that is far, far more pulp crime fiction than it is horror. As always, Huston's distain for convention in both theme and structure results in a style as distinctive as Cormac McCarthy - trademark prose that Huston can claim indisputably as his own.
This is pop fiction at its creative peak - fresh and satirical and stuffed full of allegory and nuance - an in-your-face slap at convention and protocol that will most certainly launch a pack of new stylists in its wake. While Huston's blunt violence and his sparse, unapologetic passages are not for anyone, the iconoclastic Huston will continue to hold down my number one spot of contemporary crime writers.
Summary of Every Last Drop: A Novel
?[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 to dead man walking in a New York minute. And after burning all his bridges, the only one left to cross leads to the Bronx, where Joe?s brass knuckles and straight razor can?t keep him from running afoul of a sadistic old bloodsucker with a bad bark and a worse bite. Even if every Clan in Manhattan is hollering for Joe?s head on a stick, it?s got to be better than trying to survive in the outer-borough wilderness.
So it?s a no-brainer when Clan boss Dexter Predo comes looking to make a deal. All Joe has to do to win back breathing privileges on his old turf is infiltrate an upstart Clan whose plan to cure the Vyrus could expose the secret Vampyre world to mortal eyes and set off a panic-driven massacre. Not cool. But Joe?s all over it. To save the Undead future, he just has to wade neck-deep through all the archenemies, former friends, and assorted heavy hitters he?s crossed in the past. No sweat? Maybe not, but definitely more blood than he?s ever seen or hungered for. And maybe even some tears?over the horror and heartbreaking truth about the evil men do no matter who or what they are.
Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novels
?In conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.?
?Entertainment Weekly
?[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.?
?The Philadelphia Inquirer
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