Joe Pitt Casebooks

Infobox Book
name = Joe Pitt Casebooks


image_caption = (Coming Soon)
author = Charlie Huston
country = United States
language = English
genre = Noir, Thriller, Horror
publisher = Ballentine flagicon|USA
release_date = 2005-Present
media_type = Print Paperback)
pages = flagicon|USA (so far)

"The Joe Pitt Casebooks" are an ongoing series of supernatural noir thrillers written by American author Charlie Huston. Each casebook chronicles Joe Pitt's life as well as his struggles in the underground of vampire clans of New York. At first Pitt is an unaffiliated vampire, living in between the cracks by doing jobs for various clans in exchange for blood and freedom. However, as the series progresses, this shifts and Pitt's life evolves with each book.

Overview

World

The stories take place in modern day New York City. However, unbeknownst to the humans living there, their city is divided up by different vampire (called vampyre) clans.

eries

There are five books planned in the Joe Pitt Casebooks series:
#"Already Dead" (27 December 2005)
#"No Dominion" (26 December 2006)
#"Half the Blood of Brooklyn" (2007)
#"Every Last Drop" (2008)
#"Untitled" (2009 speculative)
*With the schedule each book has been released on, it can be assumed that Huston will release the final book sometime in 2009.

Clans

;The CoalitionThe Coalition is the first group we're introduced to in Already Dead. They're the largest and most powerful of the clans with the most resources and people overall. They seem to focus on a more dominant, mafia style of ruling compared to the others. While it isn't clear who runs the Coalition, Dexter Predo is one of their high ranking members.

;The SocietyThe Society is a prominent clan in lower Manhattan, and Joe Pitt lives on thier turf as a Rouge(non-Clan member). It is run by Terry Bird and is made up of a ragtag mixture of Anarchists, Gay rights activists, and other small groups. The highest power level is made up of Bird, Lydia(gay rights), Tom(Anarchists), and Hurley, who is the main bodyguard to the three.

Main Characters

;Joe Pitt (Birth name: Simon) Joe Pitt is the main character of the series. In the beginning of the series, Pitt is an unaffiliated vampire who gets by doing odd jobs for the different clans of New York. However, by the end of the first book, Pitt has pretty much pissed the Coalition off, causing him to no longer receive much needed jobs to keep his stash of blood up. By the end of the second book, No Dominion, Pitt has joined Terry Bird's group, The Society, giving him immunity from the Coalition due to treaties and the need to avoid a war. However, in the third book, Half the Blood of Brooklyn, Pitt is sentenced to death by Bird's group, and is rescued by a former Society member.Joe ends up pissing the Enclave off as well, making him a marked man again, by most of the big clans of New York.

External links

* [http://www.pulpnoir.com Charlie Huston's official site]