From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Huston's third Joe Pitt vampire novel (after Already Dead and No Dominion) takes his Manhattan-based hard-boiled hero on a dangerous trip into the undead communities across the bridge in Brooklyn. The various vampire clans in New York are on the brink of conflict. Leadership has fallen apart, and to make things worse, a Van Helsing is running amok and has recently murdered a longtime supplier of contraband blood. Worst of all, Pitt's AIDS-stricken girlfriend, Evie, is in the hospital failing fast. Once again, he's faced with an almost classical dilemma: infecting her with the vampire virus will destroy the illness that's killing her, but she'll be a vampire. Sent to Brooklyn to meet with a rogue clan of carnival freak vampires, Pitt ends up battling a group of radical Jewish bloodsuckers called the lost tribe of Gibeah. As always, Huston's formidable writing chops are on full display: his action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous. (Dec.)
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Review

''Well written and fast-paced, this third installment in Houston's Joe Pitt Casebooks noir series. . . features all the hard-boiled action of the previous titles.'' --_Library Journal_

''As always, Huston's formidable writing chops are on full display: his 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)

''The further, even gorier adventures of Joe Pitt, Vampyre extraordinaire. . . . fans will find this installment the best to date.'' --_Kirkus Reviews_

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

''One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century.'' --Stephen King

''[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.'' --_The Philadelphia Inquirer_