For the most part, I thought the story moved along well. The protagonist was unusual, another plus factor. Ash Rashid is a detective for the Indianapolis prosecutor's office. He's going to law school while holding a full-time job. His wife is a nurse and his daughter is four years old. They are all practicing Muslims, if you don't count the fact that Rashid is an alcoholic. This setup caught my interest right from the start and kept me going.
There are stories about police corruption and the Russian mafia. And vampires. The Abbey is a wannabe fangster hangout. Rashid's teenage niece has been poisoned, and he wants to find out why the good girl he knew was hanging out at a vampire bar.
Soon Rashid is suspended from duty, but that doesn't stop him from investigating when more teenage deaths occur. The final issues stray far from the initial case and there's a bang, bang, shoot-'em-up movie ending.
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So these questions won't make sense to you unless you read the book, but when it ended I did a lot of head scratching. Does Rashid have a mysterious disease or not? What does the corrupt police officer have to do with the mad scientist? It seemed from the storyline that the detective was actually aligned with the scientist's competition. Why does the scientist need the vampire crowd? "People will do anything for you if you give them something to believe in," the scientist says. What exactly was the scientist going to have these American vampires do, given the stated desire to affect a different part of the world? Are the parents of Rashid's niece satisfied that he found out how she died? We don't know because we never see them again! Why, why, why, why, why?
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