New Releases by Charlie Huston

Nobody lives forever. Not even a Vampyre. Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan’s Vampyres, he’s definitely a dead man walking. He’s been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a private eye, an enforcer, an exile, and a vigilante, but now he’s just a target with legs. For a year he’s sloshed around the subway tunnels and sewers, tapping the veins of the lost, while above ground a Vampyre civil war threatens to drag the Clans into the sunlight once and for all. What’s it gonna take to dig him up? Just the search for a missing girl who’s carrying a baby that just might be the destiny of Vampyre-kind. Not that Joe cares all that much about destiny and such. What he cares about is that his ex-girl Evie wants him to take the gig. What’s the risk? Another turn playing pigeon in a shooting gallery. What’s the reward? Maybe one shot of his own. What’s he aiming for? Nothing much. Just all the evil at the heart of his world.

Le nouveau directeur du S.H.I.E.L.D., Tony Stark/Iron Man, recrute Moon Knight, un héros officiellement répertorié. On découvre peu de temps après des criminels assassinés et portant sur le front un croissant de lune, symbole du justicier. Iron Man se dit alors qu''il faut intervenir... Seconde et dernière partie du récit Dieu et la patrie écrit par Charlie Huston et Mike Benson et dessiné par les légendaires Mark Texeira et Javier Saltares. Egalement au programme, une longue aventure de Moon Knight illustrée par Mike Deodato Jr, dans laquelle on retrouve un certain Loup-Garou. Les couvertures originales complètent le sommaire.

De Battery Park au Bronx, de l''East River à l''Hudson, Manhattan grouille de Vampyres. Joe Pitt en est un et ça ne le rend pas très joyeux. Il est évidemment plus fort et plus rapide que n''importe qui, mais passer ses nuits à essayer de trouver du sang pour nourrir le Vyrus qui le bouffe n''est pas ce qui lui plaît le plus. Sans compter que Joe ne se rend pas la tâche plus facile en suivant son propre chemin et en refusant de s''allier avec les clans qui règnent dans les bas-fonds des non-morts de la Grosse Pomme. Pire encore, il est en butte au plus puissant d''entre eux, celui de la Coalition, et soit retrouver une pauvre fille riche qui a disparu dans Alphabet City. Les puissants de la Coalition et les parents huppés de la demoiselle le tannent, tandis que des Vampyres anarchistes le bousculent et qu''un culte de Vampyres fous le traque. Mais ce n''est pas le moment de râler. Retrouver la fille avant que le fouet ne s''abatte et que le soleil ne se lève, il le faut. Auteur de Trop de mains dans le sac publié dans cette même collection, Charlie Huston vit à Los Angeles avec son épouse, l''actrice Virginia Louise Smith.

With his teaching career derailed by tragedy and his slacker days numbered, Webster Fillmore Goodhue makes an unlikely move and joins Clean Team, charged with tidying up L.A.''s grisly crime scenes. For Web, it''s a steady gig, and he soon finds himself sponging a Malibu suicide''s brains from a bathroom mirror and flirting with the man''s bereaved and beautiful daughter. Then things get weird: The dead man''s daughter asks a favor. Every cell in Web''s brain tells him to turn her down, but something makes him hit the Harbor Freeway at midnight to help her however he can. Soon enough it''s Web who needs the help when gun-toting California cowboys start showing up on his doorstep. What''s the deal? Is it something to do with what he cleaned up in that motel room in Carson? Or is it all about the brewing war between rival trauma cleaners? Web doesn''t have a clue, but he''ll need to get one if he''s going to keep from getting his face kicked in. Again. And again. And again.

Blood spilled on the asphalt of this town long years gone has left a stain, and it’s spreading. Not that a thing like that matters to teenagers like George, Hector, Paul, and Andy. It’s summer 1983 in a northern California suburb, and these working-class kids have been killing time the usual ways: ducking their parents, tinkering with their bikes, and racing around town getting high and boosting their neighbors’ meds. Just another typical summer break in the burbs. Till Andy’s bike is stolen by the town’s legendary petty hoods, the Arroyo brothers. When the boys break into the Arroyos’ place in search of the bike, they stumble across the brothers’ private industry: a crank lab. Being the kind of kids who rarely know better, they do what comes naturally: they take a stash of crank to sell for quick cash. But doing so they unleash hidden rivalries and crimes, and the dark and secret past of their town and their families.

Een aan de drank verslaafde voormalige honkballer wordt in New York door criminelen opgejaagd als hij de verzorging op zich heeft genomen van de kat van zijn buurman.

“[Charlie Huston’s] action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Half the Blood of Brooklyn It’s like this: a series of bullet-riddled bad breaks has seen rogue Vampyre and terminal tough guy Joe Pitt go from PI for hire to Clan-connected enforcer to dead man walking in a New York minute. And after burning all his bridges, the only one left to cross leads to the Bronx, where Joe’s brass knuckles and straight razor can’t keep him from running afoul of a sadistic old bloodsucker with a bad bark and a worse bite. Even if every Clan in Manhattan is hollering for Joe’s head on a stick, it’s got to be better than trying to survive in the outer-borough wilderness. So it’s a no-brainer when Clan boss Dexter Predo comes looking to make a deal. All Joe has to do to win back breathing privileges on his old turf is infiltrate an upstart Clan whose plan to cure the Vyrus could expose the secret Vampyre world to mortal eyes and set off a panic-driven massacre. Not cool. But Joe’s all over it. To save the Undead future, he just has to wade neck-deep through all the archenemies, former friends, and assorted heavy hitters he’s crossed in the past. No sweat? Maybe not, but definitely more blood than he’s ever seen or hungered for. And maybe even some tears–over the horror and heartbreaking truth about the evil men do no matter who or what they are. Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novels “In conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.” –Entertainment Weekly “[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer

When all the bad guys come out with a vengeance, a few heroes show up as well, including Spider-Man, Frank Castle, Captain America, and a strange new force who leaves bodies wherever he goes. Collects "Moon Knight" no. 7-13.

Une blessure ayant mis fin à sa carrière de joueur de base-ball, Henry Thompson s''installe à New York. II y devient barman et si alcoolique qu''il faut lui ôter un rein. Un jour, son voisin de palier lui demande de lui garder son chat "juste pour quelque temps". Bien qu''il ne raffole pas de ces animaux, Henry accepte. Au fond, il est gentil. Il aurait mieux fait de ne pas l''être... Aussitôt, ce sont les ennuis et les violences qui commencent : rossé par des mafiosi russes aussi bêtes que vulgaires, des voyous très soupe au lait et tin flic new-yorkais corrompu jusqu''à la moelle, Henry se retrouve pris dans une bagarre dont il ne saisit pas l''enjeu pendant que tous s''acharnent sur lui. Dur, très dur... Sauf qu''ici, les coups, même s''ils ramollissent la cervelle, aident à comprendre. Voire à triompher

En Manhattan, paralelamente al mundo «normal», hay cuatro mil vampiros organizados en bandas rivales, que, como las familias de la mafi a, están al borde de la guerra. Joe Pitt no es sólo un vampiro; también es investigador privado con su propio código que se niega a integrarse en ninguno de los clanes y esto no le facilita las cosas. En esta novela, la primera de la serie de Joe Pitt, está trabajando en dos casos: por una parte, tiene que eliminar a unos zombis que andan sueltos; por otra, encontrar a la hija adolescente de una decadente y adinerada pareja. Y como suele ocurrir en los buenos thrillers, las dos tramas se funden. Huston ha creado una fantasía urbana uniendo el género de vampiros con un estilo reminiscente de los maestros del pulp.

Moon Knight has his registration card ... and he''s gonna use it! The Civil War is over, and the pro-registration forces won. Iron Man, newly installed director of S.H.I.E.L.D., has put the call out to masked heroes everywhere: Get on the right side of the law, and play by the rules. Amazingly, Moon Knight has answered the call. But playing by the rules has always been the hard part for Marc Spector and the avatar of Khonshu! And now the city whose streets are on fire with his vengeance wonders how in the world did someone like Moon Knight get approved for registration? Iron Man is not waiting for an answer. Especially since thugs, dealers and gangsters everywhere are turning up dead with the shape of a crescent moon carved into their foreheads! Is that the calling card of the Moon Knight? Or something more sinister?

“One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century.” –Stephen King “Hard-boiled horror, pulp noir vampires, decaying urban souls– you’re gonna need a shower after this one. . . . [Huston] kicks down the door of horror.” –Fangoria, on Already Dead There’s only so much room on the Island, only so much blood, and Manhattan’s Vampyre Clans aren’t interested in sharing. So when the Vyrus-infected dregs of New York’s outer boroughs start creeping across the bridges and through the tunnels, the Clans want to know why. Bad luck for PI and general hard case Joe Pitt. See, Joe used to be a Rogue, used to work off his own dime, picked his own gigs, but tight times and a terminally ill girlfriend pushed him into the arms of the renegade Society Clan. Now he has all the cash and blood he needs, but at a steep price. The price tonight is crossing the bridge, rolling to Coney Island, finding the Freak Clan, and figuring out what’s driving that bunch of savages to scratch at the Society’s door. No need to look far. The answer lies around the corner in Gravesend. Convenient, all those graves. From uptown to the boardwalk, war drums are beating. Murderous family feuds and personal grudges are being drawn and brandished, along with the long knives. Blood will spill and, big surprise, Joe’s in the middle. But hey, why should this night be different from any other? Sunset to sunrise: put off a war, keep your head attached to your neck, and save your girl. Check. Joe’s on the case. Praise for Charlie Huston and his Joe Pitt novels “In conceiving his world (a New York City divided by vampire clans, each with different reasons to hate Pitt), Huston gives a fading genre a fresh afterlife. [Grade:] A.” –Entertainment Weekly “[Huston] creates a world that is at once supernatural and totally familiar, imaginative, and utterly convincing.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer

" Moon Knight revient alors que d''étranges individus, qui se sont jurés d''éliminer Marc Spector, envoient le Maître de Corvée à ses trousses. Ancien super héros, Spector est un homme brisé, aussi bien physiquement que mentalement. Aura-t-il encore les moyens de se défendre ? " Découvrez dans cet album la première aventure complète tirée de Moon Knight, une nouvelle série écrite par le célèbre romancier Charlie Huston et illustrée par David " New Avengers " Finch. Le tout agrémenté des couvertures originales et de la biographie des auteurs.

Joe Pitt’s life sucks. He hasn’t had a case or a job in God knows how long and his stashes are running on empty. What stashes? The only ones that count to a guy like Joe: blood and money. The money he uses to buy blood; the blood he drinks. Hey, buddy, it’s that or your neck—you want to choose? The only way to lay his hands on both is to take a gig with the local Vampyre Clan. See, something new is on the streets, a new high, a high so strong it can send a Vampyre spazzing through Joe’s local watering hole. Till Joe sends him through a plate-glass window, that is. So it’s time for Joe to gut up and swallow that pride and follow the leads wherever they go. It won’ t be long before he’s slapping stoolies, getting sapped, and being taken for a ride above 110th Street. Someone’s pulling Joe’s strings, and now he’s riding the A train, looking to find who it is. He’s gonna cut them when he finds them—the strings and the hands that hold them.

“Huston writes dialogue so combustible it could fuel a bus and characters crazy enough to take it on the road.”—The New York Times Book Review Reluctant hitman Henry Thompson has fallen on hard times. His grip on life is disintegrating, his pistol hand shaking, his body pinned to his living room couch by painkillers–and his boss, Russian mobster David Dolokhov, isn’t happy about any of it. So Henry is surprised when he’s handed a new assignment: keep tabs on a minor league baseball star named Miguel Arenas. Henry has no pity for the slugger and the wicked gambling problem that got him in trouble, but he can’t help liking the guy. After all, Henry used to be just like him: a natural-born ball player with a bright future. But hell, that was long ago. Before Henry did some guy a favor and ended up running for his life. Before his girlfriend and buddies got gunned down by someone on his tail. Before he agreed to buy his parents’ safety with a life of violence. And when Miguel gets drafted by the Mets and is sent to the Brooklyn Cyclones, Henry must head back to New York, back to the place where all his problems began—and where Henry might find a real reason to keep living, a reason that may just cost him his life. Praise for A Dangerous Man “Among the new voices in twenty-first-century crime fiction, Charlie Huston . . . is where it’s at.”—The Washington Post “Huston reminds me of all my favorite writers–Pete Dexter, Robert Stone, Crumley. If there is such a thing as compassionate noir, Charlie has found it. He’s a true marvel.”—Ken Bruen, author of The Guards “Charlie Huston is the real deal.”—Peter Straub

The Fist of Khonshu is back and badder than ever, courtesy of acclaimed novelist Charlie Huston ("Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things") and red-hot, fan-favorite artist David Finch ("Avengers"). This volume collects "Moon Knight" (2006) issues #1-#6. Young adult.