13 Bullets
by David Wellington (9781741755923)

"The monster knelt in the mud, his balled fists punching at the ground, his head bowed. He started to get up and Arkeley shot him again. He'd had thirteen bullets to start with how many did he have left?"13 Bulletsexplosively reinvigorates the vampire genre that is currently bursting with renewed energy in literature, TV and film alike. But, as USA Today recently put it, gone are the days of blood-suckers who skulk and seduce and who look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. This time, the savage leader is a woman accompanied by a horde of vampire thugs who don't answer to wooden stakes or silver bullets. Twenty years ago, Jameson Arkeley thought he had put the final nail in the coffin of the last of the undead. He destroyed the last band of savage vampires, barely escaping alive, and imprisoned their savage leader, Justinia Malvern. Or so he thought. Signs begin to emerge that he has not seen the last of this vampire race and that Malvern, despite having been held under lock and key for two decades, has been busy hatching a comeback. State Trooper Laura Caxton makes some disturbing discoveries while investigating a seemingly routine homicide and is drawn into the case against her wishes. Working in tandem, Arkeley and Caxton come upon a human massacre and determine that three other vicious vampires are on the loose. Their sole purpose? To release Malvern from her prison and promulgate their terrifying race.Though Caxton resigns out of fear, she returns to the case when she learns that Arkeley has been kidnapped,

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