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When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, she's faced with something she's never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people--kids, grandparents, soccer moms--all recently turned and willing to die to... read more

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  • Anita Blake: Marshal; extremely powerful necromancer; nicknamed Executioner and War by vampires; Jean Claude's human servant, Micah's Nim-ra, Mistress of Tigers
  • Jean-Claude: Master Vampire of St. Louis, one of Anita's main boyfriends
  • Zerbrowski: Detective and ranking member of RPIT (special branch to deal with preternaturals); married; wife: Katie
  • Nathaniel: one of Anita's live-in boyfriends; wereleopard, dancer; has ankle length hair and lavender eyes; Anita's leopard to call; voyeur; submissive
  • Micah: Anita's Nim-raj and one of her main squeezes. Formed and leds the furry coalition.
  • Detective Clive Perry: member of RPIT
  • Brody Smith: new member of RPIT, a little psychic
  • Urlruch: an experienced police officer
  • Stevens: Urlrich's rookie partner
  • Cynric: Anita's blue tiger to call and her youngest lover at just 18
  • Larry Kirkland: one of the vampire hunter U.S. Marshals, Anita's former trainee
  • Arlen Brice: A new marshal who wants to learn all Anita knows of vampire hunting
  • Shelby: A rogue vampire, she was about 14 when turned
  • Asher: master vampire, lover to Jean Claude and Anita Blake
  • Jessica Arnet: St. Louis dectective, once wanted to date Nathaniel, not a big fan of Anita or Jean-Claude
  • Barney Wilcox: A new vampire
  • Keith Bores: a new, rogue vampire
  • Dolph Storr: Captain of the preternatural police force, RPIT.
  • Jade: Weretiger, Anita rescued from the Harlequin. Her only female lover.
  • Nicky: Anita's werelion to call and leader of the local lion pack, also Anita's Bride. This guy has a plus side.
  • Mephistopheles: AKA Devil, or Dev, a weretiger, and Asher's love interest as well as one of Anita's men
  • Benjamin: A old, powerful vampire that comes into Jean-Claude's territory.
  • Weiskopf: Benjamin's human servant
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “"Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try."”
    Zebrowski

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First Sentence edit see section history

ON TV, INTERROGATION rooms are roomy and have big windows so that you can watch everything.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapters 1-50

Glossary edit see section history

  • Ma Petite: French: When used as an adjective it translates to honey-sweet. It is also a cute double entendre that refers to Anita's height.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 21 of 26 in Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter. (standard series)

Preceded by Hit List, and followed by Affliction.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Laurell K. Hamilton (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Berkley
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 5, 2012
ISBN: 978-0425247549
Page Count: 386

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PS3558.A443357 K575 2012
  • Dewey: 813.54

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More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • Hit List
  • Bullet
  • Bloody Bones
  • The Killing Dance
  • The Laughing Corpse
  • Circus of the Damned
  • Guilty Pleasures
  • Flirt
  • Burnt Offerings
  • The Lunatic Cafe
  • Skin Trade
  • Cerulean Sins
  • Narcissus in Chains
  • The Harlequin
  • Obsidian Butterfly
  • Blue Moon
  • Incubus Dreams
  • Micah
  • Danse Macabre
  • Blood Noir
  • Incubus Dreams

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Guilty Pleasures
  • The Laughing Corpse
  • Circus of the Damned
  • The Lunatic Cafe
  • Bloody Bones
  • The Killing Dance
  • Burnt Offerings
  • Blue Moon
  • Obsidian Butterfly
  • Narcissus in Chains
  • Cerulean Sins
  • Incubus Dreams
  • Micah
  • Danse Macabre
  • The Harlequin
  • Blood Noir
  • Skin Trade
  • Flirt
  • Bullet
  • Hit List

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