The time for vengeance has come, and for all debts to be paid.
It is going to be the longest night the people of the little town of Harlow have ever known. The vampires walk its streets and woe to anyone who falls into their hands.
Kyle has tried to do the right thing from the beginning, starting from when he saved the life of the Undead Jim by taking down Zachariah Locke, the notorious Big Crimson, the Maker of the vampire clan. Now Locke's fellow creatures of the night are coming for Kyle, and he's not going down without a fight. But there is a deep dark secret Kyle doesn't know, and only the blood will tell.
Jim vowed to honor the debt he owes Kyle for saving his vampire life, and the time has come to pay up, but he has no idea what it will cost him. For decades, Jim has cared for nobody but himself, lurking among the unsuspecting mortals, satisfying his thirst for their blood whenever it pleased him. Now, he has a mortal friend, and more than that, a girl he has come to care about in spite of his own nature. This long night will force Jim to make the cruelest of choices, and force those whom he has come to care about to face the consequences.
Jennifer never thought she'd have a boyfriend, and then she met the vampire next door. It's been fun while it lasted, but now she is caught up in the middle of a supernatural grievance as all hell has broken loose. There's no way out, but straight through it, and no matter what, she's going to stand by her vampire.
This is it, the final book in the BIG CRIMSON series, as Kyle, Jennifer, and Jim square off against not only Luther Hatfield and Little Angel and their vampire minions, but an entire prison population of killers, thugs, and sociopaths set free to wreck death and destruction in the middle of a vampire vendetta. The streets are going to run red, the bodies are going to pile up, and not everyone is making it to the dawn.
Autorentext
I have always been a fan of such old school monsters as the vampire, the werewolf, the unquiet ghost and the walking dead, and always had the strong ambition to write a novel with one of these creatures in the spotlight. That is why I wrote the BIG CRIMSON series, my vampire trilogy. I consider myself a fan of Anne Rice, having read her VAMPIRE CHRONICLES, but instead of her tales of aristocratic creatures of the night, I wanted my vampires to be a little more down and dirty, less the trappings of nobility and more like organized crime. Most of my blood drinkers lurk in darkened alleys or rundown tenements, and some may be found on the back roads in the wee hours. All of them in search of unwary prey. They come together in clans, ruled over by their "Makers," who run their fiefdoms with an iron hand. Then there are the outlaw vampires who refuse to bend the knee to any Maker and the allegiance to any clan. They roam from city to city, making their way the best they can having perfected the art of "passing for mortal." What happens when one of those outlaw vampires is suddenly in need of the help from a mortal is the opening act of BIG CRIMSON.
My favorite type of horror story has always been one where the ordinary and the everyday and the supernatural co-exist, where the "normal" façade of the world we take for granted is pulled back to reveal the house of horrors behind. That is the premise I used in BIG CRIMSON and a couple of short stories I've written, one of which, PICK YOUR POISON, could best be described as The Stand meets Dracula and the Wolfman. A concept that would make for a great straight to DVD movie back in the day. Another one, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO COME THROUGH THE DOOR, turns on the mundane encountering the extraordinary when a vampire has to go shopping for a new suit.
Another genre I have written in is alternate history. ALL THE WAY WITH JFK: AN ALTERNATE HISTORY OF 1964 is my story of what might have happened if the tragic events of November 22, 1963 had turned out differently. It is one of the great What Ifs of the 20th Century, and I wanted to write something original?or as close to it as I could come?that would engage fans of speculative history. Using the framing device of an oral history of an America where John F. Kennedy lived to run for re-election, I tell the story through the eyes of characters caught up in events that threaten to spin out of control at any moment, as history sails into unc...