ALREADY DEAD

Book ID/图书代码： 01240005B03257

English Summary/英文概要： After two hard-boiled hits, Caught Stealing and Six Bad Things, Huston does an irresistible and fiendishly original take on the vampire myth. Manhattan is teeming with the undead, the island divided into often-warring vampire clans such as the Society, the Hood and the Enclave. The most powerful is the Coalition, whose goal is to protect its members from public scrutiny and persecution. Rogue PI Joe Pitt (aka Simon), who like all vampires is infected with a virus that requires him to drink blood regularly, is hired by Marilee Horde, a prominent New York socialite, to locate her runaway teenage daughter, Amanda, who may be slumming with homeless goth kids in the East Village. Meanwhile, a "carrier" is on the loose, infecting its victims with a bacterium that turns them into brain-eating zombies. The Coalition wants Pitt to find and destroy the carrier, since the carnage the zombies are causing brings unwanted attention to the undead community. Huston has fun playing with the conventions of the genre, creating his own hip update that will appeal to fans of Quentin Tarantino and Buffy the Vampire Slayer alike. (Dec.)

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 你听到过那些故事吗？那些只在晚上才会发生的事？那些以我们的血为食的东西？有消息告诉你：他们是真的。只是不像看电影或是老夫子斯托克本的故事书中所描述的那样。他们更为可怕。尤其是如果你碰巧是其中之一的话。不信问问乔·皮特。 那里些步履蹒跚的怪物。一些愚蠢的族类，因为嗜食了有细菌的肉类，或是大嚼人类大脑，而受到感染导致走路东倒西歪。乔讨厌这些行尸走肉，但他仍然要想法去应对这些人。这是只是一种生活。除了来世可能会好些。 从巴特里到布朗克斯区，从一条河流到另一条河流，曼哈顿爬满了夜行吸血鬼。乔就是其中之一，而他不是高兴的。他比你强壮，行动快如风，他如钉子一般坚硬，很难被杀死。但他在晚上会试着，分一品脱血来喂食，目前不大会把他吞食的威勒斯 (Vyrus)。对于乔来说，做到这些并不容易。坚持自我，拒绝与曼哈顿城下的亡灵一族苟合 — — 是需要很大的勇气的。更糟糕的是，他发现自己卷入城中势力最大家族，前往阿法贝城寻找一个已经失踪可怜富家小女孩的事件中。 现在联盟和女孩有钱的父母都紧盯着他不放，无政府主义的吸血鬼们也缠着他，还有一个疯狂的吸血鬼狂热信徒紧随他身后。虽然没时间去多想，但在事情了结，太阳升起之前，他必须要找到这个女孩。 (Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：’ALREADY DEAD is an incredible book. . . the horror debut of a writer who’s equally at home on the wider shores of crime, noir and comedy fiction. You might think blending all those genres would be a clumsy disaster, but Charlie Huston has written a book that is the most horrific and the most hilarious novel to hit the bookshelves in a long time’ — SFX
’Laced with explicit violence and neat characterisation, Already Dead skilfully interweaves a hidden vampire Manhattan with the city we think we know in a pacy, gripping read’ — The Guardian
’Brutal, stylishly noir thriller. . . a contemporary edge’ — The Times
’Great fun and an addictive read. . . a wonderfully vicious, noirer than noir tale’ — Yossarian, waterstones.com
’As sharply dialogued as a Tarantino movie . . . excellent’ — Interzone
’An irresistible and fiendishly original take on the vampire myth’ — Publishers Weekly

Publishers: Chinese Simplified (Shanghai Haolin), Chinese Complex (Spring), Dutch (Muelenhoff Boekerij), Finnish (Like), French (Editions Points), German (Verlagsgruppe RH), Greek (Oxy), Hungarian (Cartaphilus Kiado), Italian (RCS Libri, Fanucci, Edizioni BD), Korean (Woongjin), Norwegian (Giga Forlag), Portuguese (Texto), Romanian (Humanitas), Russian (AST), Spanish (Alianza, RH Mondadori).

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