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vault the Ancients escape. Their leader, Gregory, wants to make the island a kingdom. He and the others begin their takeover by creating New Ones vampires whose thirst overwhelms any remnants of their humanity. One group of humans led by Braille, a former Green Beret, holds the vampires at bay. Gregory and Braille, although adversaries, develop a grudging respect for one another. |
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264.. Night Thirst. New York: Pocket Books, 1991. Paperback. |
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Sequel to Monastery. After a nuclear plant explodes on Chinook Island a few vampires and humans survive. Braille is one of the survivors. He was, however, infected by a vampire bite in a fight with Gregory. Now Braille is a prisoner of Dr. Hargrave Cutter, a sadistic physician working for a rogue government agency, the Office of Strategic Medical Studies (OSMS). Cutter hopes that by studying Braille he will learn the secret of immortality. While Gregory and his fellow prisoners plot escape, another survivor of Chinook, the vampire Gregory, makes his way to a small town in Washington. When Cutter discovers Gregory's presence he sends a group of tough bounty hunters after him. The plot thickens yet again when an outbreak of murderous New Ones in Seattle claims the attention of both Braille and Gregory. |
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265. Wright, T. Lucien. Thirst of the Vampire. New York: Pinnacle, 1992. Paperback. |
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During the French Revolution Jean Paul Marat had sent many to the guillotine and in time turned on his cohort Phillippe Brissot, who fled before Marat could have him arrested. In the cave where Brissot hid he encountered a creature that turned him into a vampire. Now in modern-day America, Marat's descendants are being stalked by Brissot, who still carries a 200-year-old grudge. The Marat family finds an ally in an unexpected source. |
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266. Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn. Saint-Germain series. |
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Yarbro's vampire hero, Count Saint-Germain, is an alchemist and apothecary with a lifespan of more than 3,500 years. The various novels in which he is the protagonist refer to some of those ancient times. For the most part, however, the stories thus far written occur during the Common Era. Saint-German is a vampire who needs blood as nourishment, carries his native soil with him (even places bits of it in his shoes), casts no reflection, and heals from wounds that would destroy a mortal. |
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