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Vampire Zero: A Gruesome Vampire Tale | 
| Author: David Wellington
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 38076
Media: Paperback
Pages: 336
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0307381722
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780307381729
ASIN: 0307381722
Publication Date: October 14, 2008
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Product Description
One man stood between them and us.
U.S. Marshal Jameson Arkeley—the country’s foremost authority on vampires—taught police investigator and vampire fighter Laura Caxton everything she knows about monsters. After a bloody war visited upon Gettysburg by an army of vampires, Arkeley gave up his own life to save others. Except he didn’t exactly die . . .
Arkeley accepted the curse and is now a vampire himself. What’s worse, he’s the savviest vampire ever—he knows all the tricks better than anyone. Caxton is now faced with the task of destroying him. But Arkeley knows all her tactics too; after all, he taught them to her. Caxton realizes she must finish Arkeley before he succeeds in his quest to exterminate his own family, one member at a time. But even more important, she has to prevent him from becoming a beast exponentially more dangerous—a Vampire Zero.
The author of 13 Bullets and 99 Coffins, David Wellington takes the Laura Caxton series to a whole new level in this action-packed third volume.
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 Caxton Does What She's Gotta Do... December 30, 2008
Bob Fingerman (New York, NY)
Wellington, as usual, thrusts the reader right into the thick of it, starting off with an exciting, tense action sequence and following through with his trademark relentlessness. This third installment puts heroine Laura Caxton through the wringer, both emotional and physical, and her ingenuity and mettle are tested throughout. The prose is taut and engrossing and as ever, Wellington keeps it fresh with tight plotting and excellent pacing. It's a satisfying conclusion to the initial trilogy, (a fourth book is forthcoming)
True vampire story December 27, 2008
Ruth B. Ingram (East Texas, USA)
This is a vampire story that could be plausible. The vampire is a blood thirsty animal. He loses all of his humanity and becomes a blood seeking animal. He is also a killing machine. Truly a excellent adventure and action novel. I was spellbound and could not put the book down and finished it in one setting. That is entertainment pure and simple. Buy this book it does not disappoint.
Best of the series so far December 21, 2008
Nicholas Kaufmann (Brooklyn, NY USA)
Vampire Zero, the third installment in Wellington's Laura Caxton series of novels, is, I think, the best of the series so far. While the first two, 13 Bullets and 99 Coffins, offered plenty of action and good old-fashioned vampire chewiness, this one, in my opinion, has the most compelling plot. I think it's also the tightest of the three.
Caxton has been promoted from State Trooper to Deputy U.S. Marshall and put in charge of the vampire-hunting task force based in Pennsylvania. Luckily, after the events of 99 Coffins, there are only two vampires left in the world. One is so old and decrepit she can't even leave her coffin. The other is a man who was once Caxton's mentor, the man who taught her everything she knows about fighting vampires. It's not just that he's a vampire now that's worrisome, nor the fact that he can anticipate all of Caxton's moves because he taught them to her himself, but rather the fact that he's a vampire zero, intent on spreading the curse and turning others into his kind. In particular, the members of his family. And that's what makes this the best of the series, to me at least. The personal element of the ticking clock plotline elevates this one to the status of a damn fine, and damn fast, read.
The Laura Caxton series gets better and better with each book.
Vampire Hunter Turns Evil November 10, 2008
C. Brunner
This is the third book in a series about Vampires and the humans who hunt them. This story was slow at first but built up to an exciting conclusion. I enjoyed this book especially at the end. Trying not to give anything away, the story becomes worth it so stick with it.
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