Endless Nocturnes:a Tale of Quinn & the

Quinn & the Moon-Chosen #2

by Joseph Armstead

"ENDLESS NOCTURNES" is a blend of classic murder mystery, high-tech intrigue and action-adventure set in a dark world of mobsters and vampires. Quinn is The Adversary, an immortal mutant soldier, a member of a secretive race of parahumans called "Olympians" whose longevity and extrasensory abilities verge on the nearly godlike. His enemies are legion . They are The Moon-Chosen, also called "the Apollyonu," a race of blood-drinking humanoid predators. Rich, powerful and influential, they are a secret society of non-human killers, extremely long-lived but not immortal. They rule the northern Californian underworld. An unwilling witness to vampire violence falls under Quinn's protection. On the run from blood-drinking killers and a renegade covert arm of U.S Intelligence, Quinn seeks to unravel the mystery behind a deadly vendetta that could start a human/vampire war

142 pages, Paperback

First published June 18, 2007

About the author

Joseph Armstead (born February 2, 1956) is a horror/suspense/science fiction fiction author best known for his loosely-connected series of stories and novels about the MOON-CHOSEN vampires, and his THE WITHERED LAND dark fantasy/scifi series. Mr. Armstead's novels generally center on the themes of personal and societal alienation, xenophobia and interspecies racism, dark conspiracies, criminal violence and renegade scientific technologies. Armstead is also the creator of "The Infernals", evil alien demigods that he features in his "Book of Dark Memory" series, a horror-centric, darkly violent science fiction series, of which the novel Painmaker is the first volume.

Armstead's literary influences coincide with influences from modern cinema. He frequently imbues the violent scenes in his works with cinematic style. A practitioner of a literate style of writing verging on the poetic or the lyrical, he exhibits stylistic storytelling influences from the likes of Clive Barker, Stephen King, Brian Lumley and John Farris, with a nod or two to H.P. Lovecraft in his uses of mythical "cosmic conspiracies".

He currently lives in northern California and is a computer technologist. He is also known as a postmodernist freestyle poet and is frequently published in various literary publications.