The Oldest Living Vampire On The Prowl (The Oldest Living Vampire Saga)
Paperback – January 29, 2014
Description
About the Author Despite a rural upbringing, Joe was raised in a very liberal home environment and was exposed at an early age to the classic underground comic book scene of the sixties and seventies, as well as European graphic novels by artists like Moebius, Enki Bilal and Milo Manara. At age 9, he was reading Tolkien and Stephen King. He wrote his first novella at age 10. After a brief stint pencilling underground horror comics in his twenties, Joe settled down, got married, had kids and opened his own business. Fast forward fifteen years, and the Kindle e-reader made its debut. Realizing he could bypass the gatekeepers of traditional publishing, Joe started his novel The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All. Feeling a little insecure of his writing skills, he published it under the pen name Rod Redux. It was a surprising success. It, and the books that followed, Menace of Club Mephistopheles and Mort, sold so well Joe was able to close his business and devote himself full time to writing. Proud to be an indie author, Joe turned down a publishing contract with a traditional publishing house, although he has sold the foreign rights to a mainstream publisher overseas. He has recently abandoned his pen name and is rereleasing his titles under his real name. If you would like to contact Mr. Duncan, you may do so at [email protected]. Or you can friend him on Facebook, or visit his blog Red Ramblings.
Features & Highlights
- “Your life will last only as long as our conversation,” I said gently. “You will share some of your life with me, and then I will share some of my life with you. If you lie to me, about anything, I will know it. My senses are a thousand times more sensitive than your own. I will smell the lie in your sweat, see it in the quiver of your pupils, and then I will kill you, more slowly, and more painfully, than you could ever imagine. Now… Do we have a bargain?” So begins the second volume of the Oldest Living Vampire saga. In modern day Belgium, the vampire Gon has kidnapped a ruthless murderer. Lukas Jaeger is a cunning sociopath, a monster in the guise of a man. Lonely and fascinated by his hostage's inhumanity, Gon strikes a deal with the seductive serial killer: his life story in exchange for the mortal's vile tales. So long as Gon is intrigued, his captive lives on. As their Faustian bargain unfolds, the Oldest Living Vampire tells Jaeger of his rebirth in the icy steppes of Europe following the last glacial maximum, the creation of his first vampire companion, and their battle with the Elders of the Oombai, a burgeoning agricultural society... all the while, his thirst for the captive mortal's blood grows more and more irresistible.
