A departure from his first two books, Already Dead focuses on Vampire clans which control the underworld in and around New York City, as well as protagonist Joe Pitt, a vampire who does odd jobs for different clans, while retaining the gritty noir style Huston is known for. In 2005 with the release of Already Dead, Huston put a new spin on vampires with the beginning of a new saga he refers to as the 'Joe Pitt Casebooks'. A movie based on Caught Stealing was under development by Crossroads Films.Ĭaught Stealing along with Six Bad Things and Huston's fourth novel, A Dangerous Man, follow the lovable anti-hero, Hank Thompson, as he works his way through mistaken identity, his past, and a new life for himself. Huston is one of the very few authors to have the movie rights to one of his books ( Caught Stealing) sold before it was even bought by a publisher. VJ Books Presents Author Charlie Huston! 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.

(Dec.You are here: Home > Our Authors > Huston, Charlie 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 SlayerĪlike. The Coalition wants Pitt to find and destroy the carrier, since the carnage the zombies are causing brings unwanted attention to the undead community. Meanwhile, a 'carrier' is on the loose, infecting its victims with a bacterium that turns them into brain-eating zombies. 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. The most powerful is the Coalition, whose goal is to protect its members from public scrutiny and persecution.

Manhattan is teeming with the undead, the island divided into often-warring vampire clans such as the Society, the Hood and the Enclave. , Huston does an irresistible and fiendishly original take on the vampire myth. After two hard-boiled hits, Caught Stealing

Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston