Title: A Yawner
Product review: Shawn Ryan takes a slightly interesting idea--that Ceaucescu's reign in Romania was supported by vampires in charge of the Romanian secret police--and then does nothing with it. Ryan's writing style is mundane if not amateurish ("he was reduced to urine-filled pants") and the plot is unexciting, dividing its attention between standard Old World vampire tropes and contemporary Anne Ricean chi-chi vampirism. The members of the Securitate (the Romanian secret police) turn out to be either garden-variety anonymous stormtroopers or garden-variety vampires. Adam Chase, our hero, is a poor duplication of Dirk Pitt, with a magic walking stick. Pass on this one.
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