Monster Vice

by George P. Saunders

The time is tomorrow. A meteor storm has allowed monsters of every order to run free across the planet. Vampires, werewolves, ghosts, demons and other atrocities are the new bad guys on the block. To deal with this prevalent threat to Mankind, various law enforcement agencies have created special divisions to deal with the monster epidemic. LAPD has created Monster Vice - and its senior cop is Dick Pitts -- a veteran in monster extermination. On a daily basis, Dick Pitts stakes vampires, executes werewolves, and exorcises demons. When his partner is killed by a nest of vampires, he is assigned a new partner named Curadel -- who is in fact Dracula -- a greatly misunderstood Dracula through the ages and a Dracula who has become a cop to help humanity deal with the vampire plague on planet Earth. Now, Dick Pitts and Dracula must team up and fight a Grand Master - the most powerful vampire in the world - who is hell bent on transforming every child in Los Angeles into a bloodsucking killing machine. Pitts and Dracula create a special platoon of 'fang warriors' -- their mission: to find the Grand Master and shut down his evil plans before the streets of LA are flooded in a sea of blood.

Genres: Horror, Fiction, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

George P. Saunders occupies his time on Planet Earth in the lovely town of Beverly Hills, California. He is the author of the celebrated crime thriller Gray Area, along with ten other novels in the science fiction, young adult and horror genres, as well as non-fiction humor and satire. He has over 25 films either produced, directed or written and more than a dozen more which he has co-starred in with such notable celebrities as Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin in Hunt For Red October (as George Winston), Joey Travolta, Richard Lynch, C. Thomas Howell and Mickey Rooney. Saunders was the head writer on the reality series for Military Films during the Gulf War, wherein he worked with the Navy Seals and other combined elements of the United States Armed Forces. While not writing, acting or doing other entertainment related 'stuff', Saunders is known to enjoy a fine tequila on occasion, followed by a dry Cabernet.

More about Saunders may be gleaned on my blog at www.GeorgePSaunders.blogspot.com

Reviews

[Arthur B · Rating 1 out of 5]

Come for the flippant homophobia, racism, and sexism, stay for the absurd plot device of a detective who needs to have a wank every so often lest he turn into a monster. Or rather, don't stay, this is trash and not even in a so-bad-it's-good way. Full review: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/201...

[Anita · Rating 1 out of 5]

I do not like this author's writing style. I think he was going for hard-boiled crime-fighter, but instead, he delivered depressing potty-mouth cynic. I felt no sympathy for the main character, even when the cop was forced to kill his own brother in the first chapter. (The brother is a minister who was turned into a werewolf.) The obscenities were incredibly strange and misplaced. It seemed like a story written by someone with Tourette's. (And I don't mind obscenity; it should just make sense in the context of the story. This doesn't.)

Premise: It's a while after 9/11, and all of the sudden, demons, ghouls, weres, vamps - every bump in the night baddy - has come out of the closet to plague us, and the hero of this story is on the Monster Vice department of the LAPD.

I got this as a free e-book and have stopped reading at 4% in.

[Jenn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fun premise at first, quickly grew tiresome and silly. The kid, was just plain annoying. One scene was given so much awkward emphasis leads me to wonder if the author has a latent priest fetish. Meh. And isn't Vice, a department for prostitution and the like? That might be a book I'd read..although with the obsession with penises, this book kinda qualifies for the name, I suppose.

[Sarah · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love cop/government agency fighting the supernatural, so this seemed really promising. Nope. This was such a train wreck. I just kept going because it was so unbelievable (decent writing but unappealing 1D characters, sloppy world building) but I reached my limit with "mercury tipped enema".

[James Wheeler · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not worth it

A drunk, that gets everyone around him killed, does everything wrong, and talks about his dick every other paragraph. Gets old after a few chapters.

[Katherine · Rating 1 out of 5]

I could not finish the book. The summary was promising but the book itself was a disappointment. I don't mind all the sex talk. I read romance novels, but this was much more.

[Sandra Woodard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wordy?

The story line was interesting but found so many times I read without absorbing because of extended explanations causing my mind to wander from boredom.