The Vampire Evolution Trilogy (Book 2): Rule of Vampire by McGeary Duncan

Author:McGeary, Duncan [McGeary, Duncan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: vampires
Publisher: Books of the Dead Press
Published: 2014-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

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The vampire was hiding in the basement of her own house. It was relatively easy to smoke her out. Callendar tossed in a tear gas canister and it bumped down the stairs. Then there was silence; then the hiss of gas.

She came screeching up the stairs and Jeffers shot her with a bolt from the lone crossbow they’d brought with them, a last-minute addition they’d tossed into the trunk on their way out of town. The girl, who looked to be about eight years old, tumbled back into the darkness. They waited for the gas to clear, then carefully descended the stairs.

Her parents were dead in the living room and had been partially consumed by the little vampire over the preceding few days. It was the smell that had alerted the neighbors, who had called the police, who had called the FBI.

The girl was dead at the base of the stairs, the bolt in her heart and her innocent-looking little face smashed into the concrete, her neck at an unnatural angle.

“Hey, have you noticed the vampire population boom is starting to slow down?” Jeffers asked, prodding the body sadly with one foot. “Do you think we got them all?”

“Doubt it,” Callendar said. “The strain is too virulent.”

They’d confirmed that it was a maliciously potent strain of vampirism by sending some of the blue blood to the FBI office in Portland. Uncharacteristically, the results had come back quickly. This was something new––or at least, something they’d never seen before. Anyone bitten who died would come back as a vampire if the body wasn’t too far gone.

Not so quick to respond were their backup squads from New York and L.A. There were only a few specialized two-agent teams like theirs, and they were mostly based in the biggest cities in the U.S. Vampires were relatively rare, and they were extremely good at hiding themselves and their crimes. They were also extremely dangerous and difficult to kill. A major task force was usually created for each identified vampire, and it sometimes took years to track down a single target, if they managed to do it at all. So the vampire hunters weren’t used to mobilizing quickly, and even though Jeffers and Callendar had warned their superiors––repeatedly––that this was an epidemic, they were still on their own.

In truth, they were both kind of glad that help hadn’t arrived yet. It was fun and refreshing to find and kill so many vampires in such a short time, from that first idiotic baby vamp who had challenged them on a public street mere minutes before dawn to the kegger victim who had looked at them with wide, innocent, trusting eyes as they put holy water in his IV.

Most of the other vampires had been equally easy to track down. What was surprising, even with a virulent strain, was that so many had been created, because even newly Turned vampires usually tried to consume their victims. Jeffers thought it was because the baby vamps were so inept that they were letting many of their prey get away.

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