Reader Anne Kimbol has taken it upon herself to put together this Joe Pitt primer that covers characters and events from the first three books in the series.

Thanks, Anne!

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WHILE INCREDIBLY USEFUL AS A REFERENCE TOOL, THIS PRIMER WILL SPOIL ANY NUMBER OF PLOT POINTS IN THE FIRST THREE JOE PITT BOOKS.  IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THOSE BOOKS AND PLAN TO IN THE FUTURE, SCROLL PAST.  LOOK AWAY.  MOVE ON DOWN THE ROAD.  NOTHING GOING ON HERE, PEOPLE, GIVE THE MAN SOME AIR.

Outline/Summary of Charlie Huston’s First Three Joe Pitt Books (Already Dead (AD), No Dominion (ND), and Half the Blood of Brooklyn (HBB))

 

Purpose: To serve as a reminder for readers of what happened in the first three books, including information on important characters and clans. This is in no way a substitute for reading the books and is only to be used as a memory jog when reading Every Last Drop

 

 

Characters

 

Name

Book of First Appearance

Information

Status at End of HBB

Joe Pitt

AD

Real name Simon; Rogue before re-joining Society; generally uses violence as a problem-solver; 6’ 3” and strong; uses size and strength for intimidation when needed

In the Bronx; has managed to piss off basically everyone in Manhattan and a large part of Brooklyn; Alive/vamp

Philip Sax

AD

Junkie Renfield used as an informant and messenger boy by Joe and clans

Alive/uninfected and as well as Philip ever is

Dexter Predo

AD

Head of Coalition security, uses Joe when it is convenient

Alive/vamp and well

Terry Bird

AD

Saved Joe when he was first infected; head of the Society; ex-hippie type who uses violence when convenient; likes to wax poetic; more signs in ND that Terry is working behind the scenes with Predo and is after power more than anything else; not clear whether everything he does with Joe is to use him or just most of it

Alive/vamp

Tom Nolan

AD

Head of Society security; found out to be Coalition spy; was dealing anathema downtown; claims Terry set him up

Dead (in ND) – sent into the sun

Lydia Miles

AD

Member of Society and head of Gay, Lesbian and Other Gendered Alliance;

Alive/Vamp

Hurley

AD

Member of Society security; very big; not terribly bright; very loyal to Terry Bird

Shot up by Sela and Joe but alive/vamp

Evie

AD

Joe’s girlfriend; HIV-positive bartender when they meet; in hospital during HBB before Joe removes her and brings her to Daniel

Alive/vamp; Enclave member; Joe tried to strangle her to save her from the life

Marilee Horde

AD

Hired by Joe to find her daughter in AD; rich; connected in both infected and normal worlds; infected with zombie bacteria by her husband after she tries to keep him from their daughter

Dead (AD) – killed by Joe after infected with zombie bacteria

Leprosy

AD

Squatter Joe uses for information; has nasty dog named Gristle

Dead (AD) – killed by Joe after infected with zombie bacteria

Dale Edward Horde

AD

Rich; connected inside and outside infected world; creates zombie-bacteria-carrying dentures and infects people with it; wants to research vyrus but Predo won’t let him; likes young girls

Dead (AD) – killed by the Wraith

Daniel

AD

Head of the Enclave; believed to be the one who will survive in the sun; can tell by looking at people whether they are Enclave and whether they can survive being infected

Dead (HBB) – did not survive walking into the sun

Wraith

AD

Leaves behind an absence of smell, darkness, and cold; believed by Daniel to be what comes from dead vampyres; had some sort of deal with Daniel (exact details unknown but stole Joe’s blood when Daniel wanted him to experience starvation during AD)

Still around/feared by those who know of it

Luther X

AD

Founder of the Hood

Killed before AD begins

DJ Grave Digga

AD

Took over the Hood after Luther died; militant

Alive/vamp

Chubby Freeze

AD

Internet porn director; somewhat friendly with Joe and with the Hood

Alive/uninfected

Sela

AD

Pre-final-operation transvestite (has breasts and a penis); hooks up with Amanda Horde

Alive/infected

Amanda Horde

AD

Gets caught up with vampyres through her parents and her father’s attempt to create a zombie epidemic; saved by Joe and has a big-brother-type crush on him; very rich; Sela’s girlfriend; will take over parents’ company at 18 and research vyrus

Living in Coalition turf, but wants to form own clan called Cure; believes she can find a cure for the vyrus

The Count

ND

Rich guy with science background; vamp; brought into Society by Tom – really another Coalition spy; Joe infects him on the bad dose of anathema

Starves out his addiction and is working to be head of Enclave

Blackie

ND

Runs after-hours bar and drug den

Alive

Papa Doc

ND

Big player in the Hood area; runs the Pool which hosts dog fights and other events

Alive/vamp

Percy

ND

One-armed barber; vamp; Joe’s contact in the Hood when he goes up to investigate the anathema; says Luther killed himself; undercover with Enclave

Presumed alive/vamp

Mrs. Vandewater

ND

Lives in the Coalition outpost near Columbia; infects students and drains them to make the anathema; she wants to start a war and take all of Manhattan back as Coalition turf

Has eye bitten out by Joe and is hooked to the bad dose of anathema by him during ND, no update on her in HBB

Candy Man/Solomon

HBB

Owns a candy store upstairs and runs a blood business downstairs; stocked by the Coalition; killed in what is initially believed to be a Van Helsing attack and later believed to be revenge for selling non-kosher blood to the Gibeahans

 

Stretch

HBB

Leader of the Freaks, brother-in-law of Moishe; father of Vendetta and Harm; real name Abe

Killed by Lydia (HBB)

Glasseater

HBB

Eats glass as part of Freak carnival act

Killed during arrow attack (HBB)

Strongman

HBB

Part of Freaks

Killed by the Chosen (HBB)

Hatter

HBB

Part of Freaks

Killed during arrow attack (HBB)

Vendetta

HBB

Freak member; daughter of Stretch; real name Hannah

Commits suicide (HBB)

Harm

HBB

Freak member; daughter of Stretch; real name Sarah

Commits suicide (HBB)

Axler

HBB

Member of the Chosen; Moishe’s son; kills Selig

Killed by Moishe (HBB)

Selig

HBB

Member of the Chosen; a rabbinical student; Chaim’s brother

Killed by Axler (HBB)

Chaim

HBB

Member of the Chosen; Selig’s brother

Killed during arrow attack (HBB)

Matthew, David, and Hesch

HBB

Members of the Chosen

Killed during arrow attack (HBB)

Rachel and Leah

HBB

Lucys for the Chosen  (uninfecteds)

Unclear

Moishe

HBB

Head of the Chosen; Axler’s father; kidnaps Lydia

Killed by Joe when rescuing Lydia (HBB)

Joseph

HBB

Former Enclave member; infected by Daniel; had a discipline problem and killed a number of Enclave members before being kicked into the sewers; is now a believer in the Enclave cause

Alive/infected

           

Clans

 

Name

Book of First Appearance

Turf

Information

Status at end of HBB

The Coalition

AD

Uptown – from 14^th to 110^th, river to river,

Very powerful; big supply of blood that no one knows where they get; believes in the vyrus theory of vampyrism; wants to keep vampyres secret from normal society; ruled by 12 member Secretariat

Had emissaries in Brooklyn with no apparent success; sighted in Queens;

The Society

AD

East Side between 14^th and Houston

Basically p-c group; want to bring vyrus public

Key members shot/beat up by (and returned the favor) Joe, but alive

Hood

AD

Manhattan above 110^th

Mostly if not entirely black

No contact during HBB; largely intact at end of ND

Enclave

AD

West Village

Starve themselves; become incredibly strong; believe someone will manage to survive in the sun and that the vyrus is spiritual/supernatural

Count is working to become leader since Daniel died; Joe threw a Molotov cocktail in the warehouse to make a point

Dusters

AD

Part of area below Houston

Basically a motorcycle gang

Intact; friendly with Joe but not able to help him too much due to political heat

Chinatown Wall

AD

Part of area below Houston

Small clan

No real information ever provided on their status other than their existence

The Docks

HBB

Red Hook area in Brooklyn

Affiliated with Labor; largely killed after turning down Society offer of an alliance

No longer intact

Freaks

HBB

Coney Island

Group that puts on a dark and twisted carnival-type show; gets Joe and Lydia over to Brooklyn and involved with the Chosen

All members dead

The Chosen

HBB

Gravesend and surrounding areas in Brooklyn

Orthodox Jewish clan; believed to be ancestors of the Tribe of Benjamin and the Gibeahans; working to take over Brooklyn which is what pushes the other Brooklyn clans to start approaching Manhattanites

Many if not all members dead

 

Very Basic Plot Summaries

 

AD – Joe gets hired by the Coalition to investigate instances of zombie activity; the Horde family is involved as the father created the bacteria and fake teeth to spread the zombie disease; Joe meets the Wraith who is working with the Enclave

 

ND – Joe is hired by Terry to look into a drug being used by new fish/infectee; drug turns out to be blood from very new infectees being distributed by Vandewater; Tom is discovered to be a Coalition spy and is killed; Joe ends up taking the job as end of security for the Society; Joe tells Evie he is a black-market organ transporter

 

HBB – Brooklyn vampyres are trying to make alliances with Manhattan clans due to someone taking over Brooklyn; Candy Man is killed by possible Van Helsing; Joe brings a strung-out Count to the Enclave, and the Count becomes a member; Joe gets sent with Lydia to make a deal with a small Brooklyn clan and gets on the wrong side of the Chosen; Joe comes back and brings Evie to the Enclave where Daniel determines she is Enclave and takes her in before walking into the sun; Count infects Evie; Joe goes nuts and ends up kicked out of Enclave house; Joe gets picked up by Society and gets beat up a lot and sentenced to go out in the sun; Lydia calls Sela who saves Joe; Joe ends up selling information to Predo for money, blood, and guns before going to the Bronx