Charlie Huston

Once, Marc Spector was the Egyptian god Khonshu's avatar on Earth. But now, Spector and Khonshu are at odds. Moon Knight desperately wants to get back in the hero game, but every battle pushes him closer to the edge -- both in brutality and sanity As the increasingly unstable Moon Knight tries to navigate the superhero Civil War, he finds himself in the sights of Norman Osborn's Thunderbolts Spector must take refuge far away, in one of his multiple personas -- but the lure of vengeance is too strong to keep him away for long. Can Moon Knight reclaim his heroic ideals, or will he succumb to the shadows -- and end up back under Khonshu's thrall? COLLECTING: Moon Knight (2006) 1-30, Moon Knight Annual (2007) 1, Moon Knight: Silent Knight (2008) 1, Vengeance of the Moon Knight (2009) 1-10, Shadowland: Moon Knight (2010) 1-3

A thief who can travel through mirrors, a video game that threatens to spill out of the virtual world, a doomsday cult on a collision course with destiny, and a missing teenager at the center of it all. With the world on the brink of every kind of apocalypse, humanity needs a hero. What it gets is Sid Catchpenny. "I absolutely loved it. Catchpenny is a brilliant book, full of heart and the language is pitch-perfect. If Elmore Leonard had ever written a fantasy novel, this would be it." --Stephen King Sidney Catchpenny has had a bad run. Laid low by a years-long bout of debilitating depression, he's all but squandered his reputation as one of the most uniquely talented thieves in LA. There aren't many who can do what Sid does. He's a sly, a special kind of crook with the uncanny ability to move through mirrors. And the spoils he's after are equally unusual. Forget jewels and cold cash--Sid steals curiosities--items imbued with powerful mojo, a magical essence gleaned from the accumulated emotion that seeps into interesting, though often banal objects. That spot on the carpet where your old dog used to lay at your feet? The passed-down family heirloom nobody wants but everybody refuses to throw away? These curiosities are full of mojo, which is both the currency of the criminal underground and the secret source of magic in the world. When a friend from Sid's past comes looking for his help with an important client, and the chance to pay off old debts presents itself, Sid seizes the opportunity ... as best he can. But the case he stumbles into is more complicated than it seems, and it portends a seismic shift in the world, one that will leave no one untouched. As the fog of his depression begins to lift, Sid sees connections everywhere he looks, and the once disparate threads of the case--a missing teenage girl, an entire bedroom saturated with mojo, and Sid's own long-dead wife--begin to coalesce.

A high-concept spy thriller that pushes the genre into the 21st century.'One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century' Stephen King'Just when you think you've caught up with him on the curve, Charlie Huston drives right off the cliff, landing on a road no one else could see ... shockingly original' NEW YORK TIMES'Among the new voices in 21st-century crime fiction, Charlie Huston is where it's at' WASHINGTON POSTSkinner wasn't like other boys. He appeared to have no emotions, powered by reason and logic alone. And to the CIA, he's the perfect asset. An assassin they can programme and control. But now Skinner has been tasked with a new mission. One that will place him at the heart of a deadly conspiracy. Even for an operative with Skinner's off-the-wall skillset, it's a suicide mission. And Skinner begins to wonder if he's become too good at his job for his employers to keep around. For the first time, Skinner has to decide whose side he's really on. And if the price of his own survival is worth paying.

Skinner--known by the name of the psychological experiment that fostered his emotionless brutality--founded his career in "asset protection" on fear. To touch anyone under Skinner's protection was to invite destruction. A savagely effective methodology, until Skinner's CIA handlers began to fear him as much as his enemies did and banished him to the hinterlands of the intelligence community. Now, a cyber-terrorist attack on the US power grid is about to end that long exile. His asset is Jae, a roboticist with a gift for seeing the underlying systems violently shaping a new era of global guerrilla warfare. At the root of is all is a young boy, the innocent seed of a plot grown in the slums of Mumbai. Brought to flower, that plot will tip the balance of world power in a perilous new direction. A combination of Le Carre spycraft with Stephenson techno-philosophy, SKINNER is the triumphant novel that delivers a new kind of thriller for a new kind of world.

Joe Pitt on yksityisetsivän tapainen oman tiensä kulkija sykkivän New Yorkin betoniviidakossa. Hän sattuu myös olemaan elävä kuollut: vampyyri. Huonomaineinen Pitt hoitaa erilaisia päivänvaloa kestämättömiä duuneja New Yorkia todellisuudessa pyörittävien mahtavien vampyyriklaanien piikkiin, kunnes hän hutiloi raskaasti. Manhattanilla leviää zombie-virus, eikä Pitt saa taudinlevittäjää hengiltä. Samaan aikaan vampyyri-klaaneista voimakkain käskee Pittin etsimään epäkuolleiden alamaailmaan kadonneen miljoonaperijättären. Vampyyrien ja ihmisten välinen hutera rauha uhkaa romahtaa viruksen levitessä, ja sotkulle täytyy löytää syntipukki, joka saa maksaa: se saatanan Joe Pitt. Charlie Huston on amerikkalainen kirjailija, jonka raflaava pulp-tyyli ammentaa populaarikulttuurista, beat-kirjallisuudesta ja tarantinomaisista väkivaltaelokuvista. Huston myös käsikirjoittaa tv-sarjoja ja sarjakuvia. Saatavilla myös Kalmasiivouksen salattu taito (2013).

Kun Webster Fillmore Goodhuen opettama peruskoululuokka joutuu luokkaretkellä keskelle ammuskelua ja lapsi kuolee Goodhuen syliin, opettaja traumatisoituu. Traumasta muodostuu ikään kuin luonteenpiirre: Web hengailee kaverinsa tatuointistudiolla, nukkuu puolet vuorokaudesta ja on muutenkin ihan pihalla. Sitten Web tekee odottamattoman siirron ja vastaanottaa työn kuolinpaikkasiivoojana. Kun hän on ensimmäisellä keikallaan pyyhkinyt itsemurhan tehneen miehen aivot tämän kylpyhuoneen peilistä ja flirttaillut tämän tyttären kanssa, asiat mutkistuvat. Tytär pyytää palvelusta, ja vaikka Webin jokainen aivosolu kirkuu kieltäytymisen puolesta, hän suostuu. Tästä alkaa ihmissalakuljetuksen ja aseiden paukkeen sävyttämä tarantinomainen rymistely, joka pitää otteessaan vetävällä tyylillä ja notkealla kielellä.

Kun Webster Fillmore Goodhuen opettama peruskoululuokka joutuu luokkaretkellä keskelle ammuskelua ja lapsi kuolee Goodhuen syliin, opettaja traumatisoituu. Traumasta muodostuu ikään kuin luonteenpiirre: Web hengailee kaverinsa tatuointistudiolla, nukkuu puolet vuorokaudesta ja on muutenkin ihan pihalla. Sitten Web tekee odottamattoman siirron ja vastaanottaa työn kuolinpaikkasiivoojana. Kun hän on ensimmäisellä keikallaan pyyhkinyt itsemurhan tehneen miehen aivot tämän kylpyhuoneen peilistä ja flirttaillut tämän tyttären kanssa, asiat mutkistuvat. Tytär pyytää palvelusta, ja vaikka Webin jokainen aivosolu kirkuu kieltäytymisen puolesta, hän suostuu. Tästä alkaa ihmissalakuljetuksen ja aseiden paukkeen sävyttämä tarantinomainen rymistely, joka pitää otteessaan vetävällä tyylillä ja notkealla kielellä.

When Wolverine faces a problem of the villainous kind there's a good chance that he'll use his Adamantium claws to whip up a lethal solution to it. What happens, though, when he faces an opponent who becomes a much bigger problem if he's killed? Enter: Contagion, a bold new addition to Wolverine's rogue's gallery. But first, Logan must contend with Contagion's defenders, the aptly named crew known as the Unkillables.

In this "stunningly original work of speculative fiction" (The New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Caught Stealing, an undercover policeman fights to save his family in a world plagued by sleeplessness. "Charlie Huston is one of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century."--Stephen King What LAPD cop Parker Hass wants is a world both safe and just for his wife and infant daughter. But then a plague of insomnia strikes. Working undercover as a drug dealer in a Los Angeles ruled in equal parts by martial law and insurgency, Park is tasked with cutting off illegal trade in Dreamer, the only drug that can give the infected their precious sleep. After a year of lost leads, Park stumbles into the perilous shadows cast by the pharmaceutical giant behind Dreamer. Somewhere in those shadows a secret is hiding. Drawn into the inner circle of a tech guru with a warped agenda, Park delves deeper into the restless world. His wife has become sleepless, and their daughter may soon share the same fate. For them, he will risk everything. Whatever the cost to himself.

With his teaching career derailed by tragedy and his slacker days numbered, Webster Fillmore Goodhue makes an unlikely move and joins Clean Team, charged with tidying up L. A.'s grisly crime scenes. For Web, it's a steady gig, and he soon finds himself sponging a Malibu suicide's brains from a bathroom mirror and flirting with the man's bereaved and beautiful daughter. Then things get weird: The dead man's daughter asks a favor. Every cell in Web's brain tells him to turn her down, but something makes him hit the Harbor Freeway at midnight to help her however he can. Soon enough it's Web who needs the help when gun-toting California cowboys start showing up on his doorstep. What's the deal? Is it something to do with what he cleaned up in that motel room in Carson? Or is it all about the brewing war between rival trauma cleaners? Web doesn't have a clue, but he'll need to get one if he's going to keep from getting his face kicked in. Again. And again. And again.

As the concluding volume of this highly acclaimed series opens, Joe has spent a year splashing around in the city's sewer system, protecting the perimeters of the ground on which his love, Evie, now lives. Above ground, Manhattan's Vampyre clans have at last abandoned any claims on civility and have finally sprung fully for each others' throats. But as Vampyre civil war rages, Joe is tracked down by an old acquaintance and pulled back to the surface. At last, the many questions that have driven him will be put to rest - and the many friends and foes who have defined his world will either be put in the ground or will claw their way to survival. The carefully maintained peace is forgotten. When the stakes are this high, there can be no neutrality - only winners and losers. But when the blood stops flowing, what side will Joe Pitt be on?

" Charlie Huston's] action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous." -Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Half the Blood of Brooklyn It's like this: a series of bullet-riddled bad breaks has seen rogue Vampyre and terminal tough guy Joe Pitt go from PI for hire to Clan-connected enforcer to dead man walking in a New York minute. And after burning all his bridges, the only one left to cross leads to the Bronx, where Joe's brass knuckles and straight razor can't keep him from running afoul of a sadistic old bloodsucker with a bad bark and a worse bite. Even if every Clan in Manhattan is hollering for Joe's head on a stick, it's got to be better than trying to survive in the outer-borough wilderness. So it's a no-brainer when Clan boss Dexter Predo comes looking to make a deal. All Joe has to do to win back breathing privileges on his old turf is infiltrate an upstart Clan whose plan to cure the Vyrus could expose the secret Vampyre world to mortal eyes and set off a panic-driven massacre. Not cool. But Joe's all over it. To save the Undead future, he just has to wade neck-deep through all the archenemies, former friends, and assorted heavy hitters he's crossed in the past. No sweat? Maybe not, but definitely more blood than he's ever seen or hungered for. And maybe even some tears-over the horror and heartbreaking truth about the evil men do no matter who or what they are. Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novels "In conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. Grade: ] A." -Entertainment Weekly " Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing." -The Philadelphia Inquirer

There's a bad vibe in the air. Every Vampyre in Manhattan feels it in their bones . . . and in their blood. The mother of all gang rumbles is brewing between the divided Clans of the city's undead. A battle royal for more turf that will tear the island from stem to stern. And just his luck, Joe Pitt is smack in the middle of it. A rogue Vampyre who shunned Clan life, Joe's his own man. Kind of. Thing is, there's certain people have a claim on his talents. When they need someone who's . . . expendable, they call on Joe Pitt. They're calling now. With war drums beating from the Hudson to the Harlem River, Joe's been dispatched into the uncharted territory of Brooklyn to seal an alliance with the Freaks - a Clan who more than live up to their name. But across the bridge, things go south with savage swiftness, as Joe gets swept into a murderous family feud between crazed Clans that will paint the borough scarlet from Gravesend to Coney Island.

Sent to Brooklyn to investigate the murder of a blood dealer, vampyre detective Joe Pitt, the hero of Already Dead and No Dominion, comes face to face with the most peculiar Vampyres he has ever encountered, all the while struggling to deal with his ailing girlfriend, Evie, who is rapidly running out of time. Original. 25,000 first printing.

New York's favourite rogue detective, Joe Pitt, is about to find himself caught in a nasty power struggle between competing Vampyre clans. Down to his last few bags of blood and behind on rent, Joe takes on a decidedly dirty job: finding the source of a powerful drug that's hit the street, one strong enough to affect Vampyres and make its users do unpredictable things, things that could bring unwelcome exposure to New York's Vampyre community. Unfortunately, that entails crossing the mid-Manhattan turf of the Coalition into the equally fearsome territory of the Hood in Harlem. One thing about Vampyres: they have plenty of time on their bloodstained hands to engage in complex, violent feuds. Worse, Joe might be some powerful player's idea of a sacrificial pawn ...

They live among us, slaves to the very condition that empowers them. They are the Vampyre, and their sole chance at survival lies in banding into Clans. Only Joe Pitt has gone his own way. The upside is freedom. The downside is there's nobody on his side when trouble comes around. Joe gets rough receptions from all the countless Clans shifting about on the island of Manhattan, but his current trouble is with the Coalition - the Clan that controls the city river to river, from 14th Street to 110th Street. To make things right, Joe takes on his most perilous case: The daughter of a prominent New York family is missing, and her Vampyre fascination makes Joe the ideal man for this high-stakes job. With his ferocious style, Charlie Huston offers a thrilling new twist to one of our oldest myths.

Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you: they're true. Only it's not like the movies or old man Stoker's storybook. It's worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them. Just ask Joe Pitt. There's a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folks' brains. Joe hates shamblers, but he's still the one who has to deal with them. That's just the kind of life he has. Except afterlife might be better word. From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and he's not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and he's tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus that's eating at him isn't his idea of a good time. And Joe doesn't make it any easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattan-it ain't easy. It's worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalition-the city's most powerful Clan-and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl who's gone missing in Alphabet City. Now the Coalition and the girl's high-society parents are breathing down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though. Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes down . . . and before the sun comes up.