And my armor!” I was really geeking out now. It wasn’t just my gun, it was damn near my friend. ![]() Abomination and I had been through some serious things together. It was a brutal weapon, a shortened, full-auto, magazine-fed 12-gauge, complete with underslung 40mm grenade launcher, EO-Tech holographic optic, and-the pièce de résistance-a side-folding, silver-inlaid bayonet. I pulled back the charging handle to check the chamber and the bolt was as slick as ever. I put the bag down and pulled out my customized Saiga shotgun. I unzipped it, peered inside, and was greeted with a wonderful sight. He unslung the duffle bag and handed it to me. ![]() My usual encounters with them involved bullying, threats, intimidation, and the occasional fistfight. Apparently I wasn’t the only one surprised at meeting a friendly agent. Then the shooting started, and didn't really stop for another three hundred pages or so.Īnd just remember: vampires only sparkle when they're on fire.“Well, thanks,” Julie stammered. The chapters that amount to a large training montage are detailed and interesting, and establish the characters better than heading straight into the action. Most of the time, the weapon details are critical to the plot, considering what fresh new horrors they run into all the time. Despite the constant description of these books as "gun porn," I have yet to be bogged down the guns. This book was awesome from start to finish. He soon finds himself being haunted by an old Jewish ghost, is getting visions of an ancient entity called "the Cursed One"who just arrived on US soil, is hip deep in ghouls, vampires, flying killer gargoyles that bleed magma, and did we mention that the Cursed One might be about to end the world? Unfortunately for Pitt, his first day on the job is going to get messy. The perks are good - play with weapons, hang out with the stunning woman who recruited him, and the paychecks are insane - and, well, why not? The other group is Monster Hunter International, a private organization dedicated to collecting bounties as they exterminate the world's nastier pests - including vampires, giant spiders, and a few creatures from the black lagoon.Īnd MHI offers Owen Pitt a job. One is the Monster Control Bureau (MCB), a government bureaucracy that looks like it's run by either the Keystone cops, or whatever random thugs can be brought in off the street (though it'll turn out that they aren't random). There are only two forces that deal with the legion of nightmares (that we see in this book). Pick a B-Movie horror film or a Lovecraftian monster. ![]() But Own Pitt is 6'7", and gravity kills.Īfter Pitt hands in his resignation the hard way, he has officially fallen down the rabbit hole. Pitt has to go toe-to-toe with a freaking werewolf. Let's just say that I would have considered throwing him out a window before he became a large furry sociopath. Yes, chapter one involves a brawl between the above mentioned Owen Pitt, and his boss, who has become a monster of a completely different stripe than he had been. How can you argue with a plot description like that? Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer.
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