title: Dark Road Rising (Vampire Files)
author:  P. N. Elrod 
description: Elrod ties up some loose ends from <i>Cold Streets</i> and picks up where 2006's <i>Song in the Dark</i> left off in Jack Fleming's swaggering 12th adventure. Jack, a hard-boiled vampire PI/club owner in 1938 Chicago, subdues and wins over Gabe Whitey Kroun, a big bad gang boss from New York whom Jack soon discovers is also undead. Whitey's vampire blood helps Jack's best friend, Charles Escott, survive a deadly infection and injuries from a nasty fight, but it may turn him into a bloodsucker. Elrod sometimes gets too caught up in nostalgic gangster-style chatter, but the action is solid, and while newcomers might feel like they've wandered into a half-finished film starring Humphrey Bogart and Vincent Price, fans will be thrilled. <i>(Sept.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: Dark Road Rising
  P. Elrod
  Penguin Group USA
  Table of Contents
  Copyright Page
  Dedication
  Chapter 1 - Chicago, February 1938 
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  Chapter 16
  Chapter 17
  Chapter 18
  Chapter 19
  Chapter 20
  Chapter 21
  “Well-done . . . original.  
  You won’t want to miss this series.”  
  —Cemetery Dance 
   
  PRAISE FOR THE VAMPIRE FILES NOVELS
   
  DARK ROAD RISING
   
  “P. N. Elrod ups the stakes (pun intended) in this latest, and best, installment of the Jack Fleming saga. Chills, thrills, and dark 
  doings in ’30s Chicago, heralded by the arrival of a darkly fascinating new vampire character with a deadly secret. Elrod takes her 
  universe into unexplored territory with Dark Road Rising.” 
  —Rachel Caine, author of the Morganville Vampires series 
   
  “The book is as dark and decadent as blood and chocolate. The writing pops, and Jack Fleming is a narrator to die for.” —
  Caitlin Ki