The Truants

By: Lee Markham

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Hardcover | 25 July 2017

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Contorting the conventional vampire narrative into a startling tale of immortality, blood lust, and rage contaminating London's inner-city youth like a virus, The Truants tells the story of the last of the old-ones-creatures afflicted with a condition not unlike vampirism: ancient, bloodthirsty, and unable to withstand sunlight.The last old-one has decided to end his life, but before he can act he is held up at knifepoint. His assailant disappears, the knife in his pocket, the blood of the old-one seared into its sharpened edge. The knife trades hands, drawing blood again, and the old-one is resurrected through his victims' consciousness and divided, spreading through the infected. With his horde of infected youth, the old-one must reclaim the knife to regain control of his soul. But someone is out to stop him...

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Markham's take on the inside of an ancient vampire's head is as invigoratingly fresh as his story is, by turns, brutal and touching. Stripped of romance, paced like a crime novel, it engages a milieu which most of us, happily, will never need to see--the teen gangs on the cruel, poverty-stricken streets, the 'rats' in the gutters--and makes us give a damn. An extremely smart, talented first novel.--Jack Ketchum, author of Off Season Vampires are an inspired vehicle . . . to present to the reader, in gruesome, shocking, humbling imagery and writing, a picture of everything that is wrong, broken, and callous about modern life. Bleakly stunning and doggedly thought-provoking . . . It hooks you instantly and holds you there, in its unrelenting claws until the final page, leaving you spent (in a good way) and its message lingering within you, like the vampires who possess their victims within the book.--Tarn Richardson, author of The Darkest Hand trilogy An absolutely stonking good read . . . the Tarantino-esque timeline gripped from start to finish.--Russ Williamson, smashwords.com An interesting twist on the vampire myth . . . genuinely innovative.

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