Fixer [Mass Market Paperback]

"...a fine stalking session in vampire-noir land...a series and talented writer I'll be sticking with all the way." -- Best-selling author Mort Castle

"...twists galore...the start of a new series that should have readers begging for more!" -- Baryon-Online Magazine - lead review for January 2002

"Jon F. Merz's novels move at a break-neck pace, twisting through a landscape of thrills and terror." -- Best-selling author Douglas Clegg

"The Fixer is a powerful first novel by a man who knows the turf already." -- Best-selling author Robert B. Parker

Meet Lawson: vampire by birth, Fixer by trade. His mission: preserve the secret existence of vampires by any means necessary. There's just one problem - his oldest enemy Cosgrove is back, killing humans and threatening to unleash an ancient unholy evil. Can Lawson stop Cosgrove and still adhere to the very laws he protects by not falling in love with a beautiful human assassin named Talya?

Hi everyone! Hope you enjoy my debut novel. There will be a lot more in the series - book 2 comes out in October 2002, book 3 in March 2003, and book 4 later that year.

When Vampires Step Out Of Line They Answer To Me

Call me Lawson. I work out of Boston, where human beings are just another part of the food chain. As a vampire, I should know. We don't drink much, just enough to keep our engines running. Any more and we would draw attention to ourselves - something the Council frowns upon.

The members of the Council believe we can coexist with the humans. Some vamps disagree. That's where I come in. I'm a Fixer. When a nosferatu gets delusions of grandeur about taking over the world, it's my job to take them out - with extreme prejudice.

Cosgrove is one such megalomaniac. Last time we tangled, he butchered fifty people. Now, the Council understands the threat he represents, and I've been ordered to sanction him. But Cosgrove has no qualms about draining the humans he feeds from, giving him strength and agility I can't possibly combat - unless I resort to his methods...

Jon F. Merz writes out of Boston, MA, USA where he is hard at work on forthcoming novels in the Lawson Vampire series.