David Wellington: 99 Coffins (2007)
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Author (publishing info, Three Rivers Press)
David Wellington was born in the South Hills of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1971. (...) In 2003, he established the website www.monsternovel.com , where he began serializing novels online. ...
the author's books: Monster Iceland (2004) , Monster Nation (2005) , Big Planet (2005) ;
13 Bullets (2006) , 99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale (2007) , Vampire Zero: A Gruesome Vampire Tale (2008) , 23 Hours: A Vengeful Vampire Tale (2009) ;
Inhalt (Klappentext, Three Rivers Press)
A dark secret buried beneath our bloodiest battlefield
Laura Caxton vowed never to face them again. The horror of what the vampires did is too close, the wounds too fresh. But when Jameson Arkeley, broken and barely recognizable, comes to her with an unfathomable, unholy discovery, her resolve crumbles.
Arkeley leads Caxton to a tomb in Gettysburg recently excavated by a local archaeology professor. While the town, with its legendary role in the Civil War’s worst battle, is no stranger to cemeteries, this one is remarkably, eerily different. In it lie 100 coffins—99 of them occupied by vampires, who, luckily, are missing their hearts. But one of the coffins is empty and smashed to pieces.
Who is the missing vampire? Does he have access to the 99 hearts that, if placed back in the bodies of their owners, could reanimate an entire bloodthirsty army? How did the vampires end up there, undisturbed and undiscovered for 150 years? The answer lies in Civil War documents that contain sinister secrets about the newly found coffins—secrets that Laura Caxton is about to uncover as she is thrown into a deadly, gruesome mission of saving an entire town from a mass invasion of the undead....
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99 Coffins 's like the continuation of 13 Bullets , both books can be read entirely on its own.
as "historical vampire story" is built up completely different than the previous novel, as a chapter from a chapter in the present with the past (Gettysburg during the American Civil War) alternates. This chapter from 1863 in the form of letters or reports designed to give the former soldiers and put together a response to the origin of the 99 coffins found.
Someone who knows little about the history of time and also of little interest for it, will probably get bored quickly, and in these bays, they might even skip to simply follow the history of the present. This is indeed exciting and bloody 13 Bullets , but almost a bit too much. While Caxton Arkeley and then with a handful of vampires were already overtaxed, they face now with a potential army of Vampires face and mutates the whiny, insecure Caxton suddenly Wonder Woman.
rather less successful.
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