No Dominion: A Novel
by Charlie Huston
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Author: Charlie HustonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-12-26
ISBN: 0345478258
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Del Rey
Book Reviews of No Dominion: A Novel
Book Review: The most bloody-entertaining novel I've read in a while
Summary: 5 Stars
The Joe Pitt series, for those unfamiliar, is a modern reworking of the vampire novel. Huston's "vampyres" are victims of a "vyrus", an infection that gives them an irresistible craving for blood, while at the same time cleansing the blood of all impurities, preventing them from aging, healing non-fatal injuries and illnesses, and giving them a heightened sense of smell and greater strength. Unlike traditional supernatural vampires, Huston's vampyres are fang-free, can eat garlic (if so inclined), see themselves in mirrors, and surround themselves with as many holy crosses as they like. But they must consume human blood to survive and are extremely sensitive to light (in an `accelerated skin cancer' kind of way).
Joe Pitt is a rouge vampyre who refuses to join one of the competing clans that control the vampyre world in Manhattan. He is a free agent of sorts who is hired from time to time by the clans to solve problems. In No Dominion, Joe is strapped for cash, low on blood, and looking for work, when he is given a covert assignment by the leader of his former Clan "The Society". The assignment involves finding the source of a dangerous new drug that is becoming popular with some of the vampyres.
This is the second novel in the series. The first novel, Already Dead was great, but No Dominion is even better. Where Already Dead did a great job of reimagining both the vampire legend and the hard-boiled detective novel, No Dominion adds an additional level, infusing elements of the spy novel.
Like a spy novel, not everything in No Dominion is as it seems. The power brokers of the big Clans have hidden motives. Joe's strings are being pulled and every move that is made is followed by a countermove.
This novel isn't for everyone. Huston sets his novels in the seamy underbelly of New York. There is sex, violence, drug-abuse, and worse on these city streets. The violence in the novel is gruesome and ruthless (not in an overblown sadistic serial killer kind of way though - more of the bone crunching violence of a street-fight). At one point in the novel Pitt interrupts a woman who is holding him captive mid-sentence by biting her eye out. There is also a scene that involves dog fighting that some people will find disturbing.
Huston's lean prose is edgy, darlkly funny, irreverent, and uncompromisingly brutal. The world the author creates is complete and brilliantly imagined. Joe is the perfect anti-hero. I especially like that Huston hasn't `soften up his edges' in an effort to make Joe more likeable. If Joe has to kill a few innocent people, sometimes that's necessary. He makes no apologies for doing what needs to be done.
The bottom line: I haven't flat-out enjoyed a novel this much since...well....since I read Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell. No Dominion is an absolute blast to read - provided you like fiction that is smart, lean, darkly funny, and brutally violent.
Summary of No Dominion: A Novel
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 Clan. See, something new is on the streets, a new high, a high so strong it can send a Vampyre spazzing through Joe?s local watering hole. Till Joe sends him through a plate-glass window, that is.So it?s time for Joe to gut up and swallow that pride and follow the leads wherever they go. It won?t be long before he?s slapping stoolies, getting sapped, and being taken for a ride above 110th Street. Someone?s pulling Joe?s strings, and now he?s riding the A train, looking to find who it is. He?s gonna cut them when he finds them?the strings and the hands that hold them.
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