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No Dominion (Joe Pitt Casebook # 2) by Charlie Huston
01/05/2007 . Source: Sue Davies 
pub: Del Rey/Ballantine Books. 251 page enlarged paperback. Price: $13.95 (US), $17.95 (CAN). ISBN: 978-0-345-47825-2. Buy No Dominion in the USA - or Buy No Dominion in the UK  check out website: www.delreybooks.com and www.pulpnoir.com
Hard-boiled and shop-soiled detective Joe Pitt returns in a second story that loosely follows from 'Already Dead'. Huston says there will be five books in the series. Although they are independent stories there is an arc that will feature in all five.
This is a violent book. Seriously, it gets its hands very dirty. You have to know what you are getting into.
The hard-boiled detective Joe Pitt returns. It's a slick and assured performance for a guy who is anything but. Joe 'lives' on the very edge. As for violence, he's 'dead' against it but if necessary would prefer to save his sorry ass by resorting to it.
This time Joe is up against a new kind of drug that gives a proper high to Vampyres. The drugs don't usually work on them, something to do with the virus that infects them. Nothing can survive in a Vamp's blood for long. This is something real powerful and its causing consternation in the Clans.
So Joe who would be rather be alone - not quite in the manner of Garbo - once again finds he is doing a public service by outing his half-life on the line. With his HIV-positive girlfriend desperate for a transfusion from him, he is under pressure from all sides. He has never told her about his own peculiar health status.
This is a very readable take on the pulp fiction of the detective. I found the lead character well-developed with an exotic collection of walk-on parts. Overall, another to add to the list of must-reads.
Sue Davies
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