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Joe Pitt #2

No Dominion

charlie huston

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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 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.

251 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2006
Series
Joe Pitt
Places
new york city new york, 

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Format
251 pages, Paperback
Published
December 26, 2006 by Del Rey
ISBN
9780345478252
ASIN
0345478258
Language
English
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niabv
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April 26,2025
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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 cross through Coalition territory and connect with someone in The Hood. To make matters worse, he must journey in daylight to avoid encountering Coalition enforcers if at all possible.

Another very fun entry in the Joe Pitt series. This one had me humming the theme song from that old movie "The Warriors" from the time Joe makes it to The Hood to the point where he manages to get back below 14th, back to Society territory. It was so fun, and I really love the pulpy-, noir feel these books have. The Vampyre twist just makes them even better!

On to the next one, "All the Blood in Brooklyn". Can't wait!
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FierceLemon
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April 26,2025
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#2 Joe Pitt ‘paranormal noir’ mystery series. Joe, a Rogue Vampyre not pledged to any of the vampyre clans in New York, is feeling a bit peaky these days. He’s down to his last 3 pints of blood in the fridge and two months behind on his rent. Ever since the incident in which he cheesed off a couple of the major clan bosses, the work coming his way has been slim to none. He’s about to go begging for a job when one gets thrown his way by Terry, the Society boss.

New vampyres are hitting on some new drug out there that’s making them go a bit crazy and Terry wants Joe to figure out what this drug is and who’s supplying it. It’s disrupting the tentative truce between the clans and no one wants an all-out war. Or do they? Joe treks across forbidden Coalition territory to the Hood to look up a guy whose name he got from another guy—yeah, the connection is slim but when you’re not sure where your next pint of blood is coming from, and your girlfriend (who, by the way, doesn’t even KNOW you’re a vampyre!) is needing some expensive medical treatments, you get a bit desperate. What ensues is a madcap couple of days with Joe nearly meeting an untimely end several times and the unveiling of plots within plots and much political scheming.

Very dark and noir, lots of graphic violins (but very little sax! LOL) and many unsavory four-letter words. In other words, my kinda book. ::grin:: I love Joe’s rogue attitude, what I call his whole “eff you personality,” since I tend to have the same attitude to belonging to groups myself. I have the next Joe Pitt book here on my TBR and I know it won’t be too long before I get to it. A.
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TetraKiss
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April 26,2025
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Things start to heat up as Huston introduces more clans and the city begins to get fleshed out further. Joe also has more depth added as his "don't take shit from no one" personality expands.
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Centipede143
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April 26,2025
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A standard noir thriller with some gang turf stuff and a typical down and out detective with a chip on his shoulder. The twist is that everyone is a vampire. Well, kind of. The protagonist and mains are all dependent on human blood for survival, healing factor, and kind of a high. It actually made me think about the possibility of a noir detective book starring a heroin addict - might be interesting. Part of the reason I think of this is that the plot is driven by a drug running operation that our hero must ferret out amongst various different vampire-controlled areas of Manhattan. Noir can be unsettling anyway, but there was one part where I almost stopped reading - it involved a dogfight and some stereotypes that struck me as fairly racist. The book later explained this scene a couple different ways and kind of excused itself by introducing a super-duper-racist character and punishing that person mercilessly, but still. Not sure I’d read another Pitt book, but for the most part this was a fairly good example of the genre with an interesting twist.
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Forluth
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April 26,2025
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I really love the voice of the Joe Pitt. He's a strong character and a vivid narrator. He does keep causing trouble for himself though, and I keep wanting to tell him to shut his smart mouth. He also gets beat up an excessive amount and in increasingly gruesome manners. I enjoy the world he describes but I could live without some of the more graphic descriptions.
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noemarabbit
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How to make a bloody omelette. Fantastical racism based on very real racism. When is the Netflix series?
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Wizzmoo
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April 26,2025
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Second book in a series I enjoyed a lot so far. Joe Pitt continues his life as a rouge vampyre in New York, but since he got on Dexter Predos bad side in the first book, he no longer gets any jobs from the coalition, the biggest vampyre clan. With nearly no money or blood, he knocks in the door of his former boss Terry Bird, leader of the society. Terry gets him a job, to find out what's the meaning of the new drug, for vampyres, which is popular among the new vampyres. Joe has to go through different turfs to find answers, which to no one's surprise causes a lot of problems for him. I like the dynamics between the clans and different characters, it makes the world more fleshed out. This book is dialogue heavy, but the slang and different way they talk creates a huge immersive effect and is hilarious. Joe is an anti-hero (my favourite kind of hero), this book is full of blood, killing, injuring and swearing, but there is a clever plot keeping all that together. It never gets boring and I didn't see all the twists and turns coming, but was always pleasantly surprised by them. The love-story could be a little bit more prominent, but that that's about the only thing I would prefer being different.
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