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My Dead Body Preloaded Digital Audio Player – Unabridged

by Charlie Huston (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
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After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan's Vampyres, private-eye Joe Pitt is definitely a dead man walking. For a year, he's sloshed around the subway tunnels and sewers, tapping the veins of the lost, while above ground, a Vampyre civil war threatens to drag the Clans into the sunlight once and for all. What's it gonna take to dig him up? Just the search for a missing girl who's carrying a baby that just might be the destiny of Vampyre-kind. Not that Joe cares all that much about destiny and such. What he cares about is that his ex-girl Evie wants him to take the gig. What's the risk? Another turn playing pigeon in a shooting gallery. What's the reward? Maybe one shot of his own. What's he aiming for? Nothing much-just all the evil at the heart of his world.

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    1441722564
  5. ISBN-13
    978-1441722560
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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1441722564
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1441722560
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.5 x 7 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 137 ratings

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Charlie Huston

Charlie Huston

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Charlie Huston is the author of the bestsellers The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death and The Shotgun Rule, as well as the Henry Thompson trilogy, the Joe Pitt casebooks, and several titles for Marvel Comics. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars Satisfying end to a great series.
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2009
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This is the fifth and final book in the Joe Pitt series. Pitt is a vampyre in Manhattan. Vampyres are much more infected than they are mystical. They lead a harder life than they do in other stories. No Twilight or Sookie-style vampires here. This world of vampyres is a hard one, where only the strong survive (And even then, just barely.)

The Island is an enclosed community of vampyres, geographically sectioned off and ran by different clans. Joe starts off in the series as a troubleshooter for the different clans, but not beholden to any one group - rare, but Joe's skills in handling the "dirty work" make his existence outside of clan politics possible. Each book is self-contained, but does have an overall story from the first book to the last. Things happen in every book that shakes up Joe's world, so although you can read the series out of order, it's better to start at the beginning.

These books are definitely hard boiled. Joe's character reminds me of Parker from Richard Stark's books. He does whatever he has to survive or to accomplish his goal. Huston has created one of the greatest hard cases in modern fiction. And I don't want to shortchange the world he has created. The political workings of the clans, the explanation of how being a vampyre works, etc - make it easy to immerse yourself into this world.

I don't want to spoil ANY of the series, let alone the final book. So let me just say "My Dead Body" is a great book in series of great books, that does a fantastic job of finishing up the story of Joe Pitt.

Also - if you like this series, please also read the Hank Thompson trilogy by Charlie Huston. They're pretty amazing as well.
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4.0 out of 5 stars good but not great
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2014
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Wraps up all the ends, but a little confusing in parts. Could have slowed it down to make it more comprehensible.
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TMStyles
5.0 out of 5 stars Joe Pitt Goes Out On Top
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2009
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The five Joe Pitt novels are extraordinary examples of stylistic prose and horror noir at their best. "My Dead Body" is designed to end the 5 novel arc and as such, it ties a lot of loose ends together but the casual reader should be advised that "My Dead Body" is not a good novel to first experience this excellent series. In fact, each subsequent novel has become murkier and more entangling than the previous entry and there are parts of this finale that become deeply metaphysical and philosophical. And be forewarned, Huston writes in a sparse economical manner, usually in the first person, and the dialogue flows in real time without each character's comments being identified textually which can lead to confusion at times for the inattentive reader. His styling is in a "stream of consciousness" mode that sometimes seems to leap off the page and in other instances the reader is forced to reread the paragraph to get the proper character identified as the speaker.

In "My Dead Body", Charlie Huston continues the disturbing portrait of his new strangely intriguing world in which gang-like "clans" of vampires (humans who have been infected with the Vyrus) have divided Manhatten Island into territories and fiefdoms, each with its own governing structure, borders, spheres of influence, and purpose in existing. Huston has effectively created a world where vampires coexist with unknowing humans and where the sociological, psychological, and philosophical conflicts between individuals and between clans make for stunning parodies and commentaries on our lifestyles. Indeed, the loyal reader often forgets the vampire/blood dependence angle as the action and the emotions mirror those of any great noir novel that visits eternal themes of loyalty, betrayal, greed, and passion.

Joe has been hiding underground since the action in "Every Last Drop" where he initiated a war among the vampyre clans when he agrees to return to the dangerous world above to rescue Chubby Freeze's daughter who has been impregnated by her vampyre boyfriend--the possibilites of that child are enormous; however, Joe's real motivation is to please his old girl friend, Evie, and to see her once more. Within steps of returning to the surface world, Joe is embroiled in danger, double crosses, and gore as, seemingly, all the clans and all the major characters from the previous novels want to see him dead. Through artful and not so artful negotiations and manipulations, Joe soon has everyone at one another's throats (no pun intended).

While trying to survive and rescue the young couple, Joe stumbles upon a secret developed by Amanda Horde's research that could effectively destroy the entire world as the vampyres know it. Loyal readers of the series will experience the savagery of the Coalition, the Society, The Enclave, and The Hood at war with each other and with Joe. Similarly, Huston ties up the loose ends involving Digga, Predo, Terry Bird, Hurley, the Count, Sela and the rest of our surviving cast of characters. "My Dead Body" is a wild ride with many unexpected stops that, all in all, is a fitting climax to the Joe Pitt saga. I highly recommend the series, but be aware, it is a long way and a far cry from the "Twilight" and the "Sookie Stackhouse" novels.
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W. V. Buckley
5.0 out of 5 stars So long, Joe Pitt. You're gonna be missed!
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2012
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I've been putting off reading My Dead Body, the conclusion to Charlie Huston's astonishing series featuring Joe Pitt, a postmodern vampire gumshoe. I just didn't want to see the series come to an end. Over a three-day weekend I finally sat down and took a dive once again into Huston's twilight world of vampire clans living just beneath the public's awareness in New York City.

There's just so much of this series that shouldn't have worked. Try recommending the series to someone not familiar with it and chances are you'll get a "Huh?" when to try to explain what the series is about. But so many of the people I've recommended the Joe Pitt books to have come back and thanked me for the recommendation.

In a world where vampires have been domesticated into romantic figures and brooding eternal teens, Huston's Joe Pitt is a throwback to grittier - much grittier - times. The stories are violent. Pitt doesn't always inflict the violence; sometimes it's inflicted on him. When My Dead Body opens Pitt is still living in the sewers to which he fled after lighting a fuse that would bring New York's vampyre clans to each others' throats in the series' fourth installment, Every Last Drop. He's still missing an eye and a toe when the fifth novel opens and you can rest assured he'll be missing more body parts before it's over.

Joining Pitt once again is a parade of characters from the previous novels, many of whom won't make it to the last page. Since Pitt literally went underground in the previous novel things have gotten tense in the intervening year since Pitt let the vampire clans know where the blood they are supplied with comes from. The shock of that revelation is still rippling when Pitt comes back into the light (so to speak) to help his old friend, porn producer Chubby Freeze, track down his wayward daughter who is pregnant by her vampyre boyfriend. The trouble is that Pitt and Chubby aren't alone in wanting to find here. Some of the clans see the girl and her baby as a threat to the (un)natural order. Some see her as the hope for mankind and vampyrekind. And others want to turn the baby into a science project.

To say much more about the plot would be to take away much of the pleasure of reading Pitt's efforts to get the major players to take aim at each other long enough for him to save the human girl, her unborn child and her vampyre boyfriend. Just sit back, buckle up and enjoy the ride as Huston brings the Joe Pitt casebook to a bloody and satisfying conclusion that takes loose ends from the previous four novels and weaves them together into a gore-splattered bow.
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David
5.0 out of 5 stars Great writing!
Reviewed in Canada on September 12, 2019
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A good way to finish the series.
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Knitting Nellie
4.0 out of 5 stars Resolution time
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2010
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I love this series!
Huston's writing picks you up and carries you along with it right to the end. in this book you get more of the same kinds of writing and convoluted relationships that you find in the previous Joe Pitt novels. I thought that the author was perhaps tying off all the endings a little too neatly - there is certainly nothing left hanging over for another novel - but I found the resolution of some of the story lines too contrived. That being said, there was no way I was not going to read this book, and i still enjoyed rooting for Joe to come out OK in the end. I think it is interesting how the author still manages to imbue the main character with some sense of humanity. Despite the terrible, violent things he does, you're still (probably) on his side, becasue Joe still somehow has a sense of morality that works in his world.
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