Only the Dead Know Brooklyn
A Novel
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A vampire who is confined to Brooklyn gives up his immortality to save the human love of his life and unknowingly wades into a much larger supernatural conspiracy.
Ryan Driggs has lived in Brooklyn for 128 years, 96 of them as one of the last members of a tribe of blood-eating immortals who have called the borough home since before colonial times. Besides the occasional hard-to-control thirst, his life in the twenty-first century is uneventful, until he meets Jennifer, a human from Manhattan with whom he falls in love.
Unable to leave Brooklyn without reverting back to his original, cancer-stricken human state, Ryan knows he must tell Jennifer who and what he really is. But before he can find the words, she is kidnapped by a tribe of Manhattan vampires—and Ryan discovers that, for a reason unknown to him, he is a target too. After contacting the oldest member of his tribe, a former slave named Frank Lafayette, and after an attempt on their lives that leaves two of Frank’s employees dead, Ryan realizes he’s been thrust into a world that is more dangerous than anything he’d imagined.
As he travels to Manhattan to rescue Jennifer, forsaking his immortality, he gets caught up in a roller coaster of violence, lies, manipulation, and a power struggle that stretches back thousands of years. Chris Vola's Only the Dead Know Brooklyn takes place in a world where conspiracies are more than just theories—where Ryan must decide to fight, or forsake both of the species he's called his own.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Those who have read other books about vampires living in secret in the modern world are likely to find this unengaging supernatural thriller too familiar. Ryan Driggs, who passes for human, is actually an undead supersoldier who was created through a "genetic loophole" to protect a Native American tribe. He has not physically aged in almost a century and can only digest human blood. If he crosses the boundaries of his tribe's former territory now known as Brooklyn he'll become mortal. That restriction causes problems in his relationship with his current girlfriend, who can't understand why he won't spend time with her in Manhattan. Ryan has more serious issues to deal with as well, as the surviving members of his tribe are being identified and hunted down. There are some nice touches, such as Ryan connecting with willing blood donors on Craigslist, but they aren't enough to sustain interest.
