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A vampire who is confined to Brooklyn gives up his immortality to save the human love of his life and unknowingly wades into a much larger supernatural conspiracy.Ryan Driggs has lived in Brooklyn for 128 years, 96 of them as one of the last members of a tribe of blood-eating immortals who have called the borough home since before colonial times. Besides the occasional hard-to-control thirst, his life in the twenty-first century is uneventful, until he meets Jennifer, a human from Manhattan with whom he falls in love. Unable to leave Brooklyn without reverting back to his original, cancer-stricken human state, Ryan knows he must tell Jennifer who and what he really is. But before he can find the words, she is kidnapped by a tribe of Manhattan vampires -- and Ryan discovers that, for a reason unknown to him, he is a target too. After contacting the oldest member of his tribe, a former slave named Frank Lafayette, and after an attempt on their lives that leaves two of Frank's employees dead, Ryan realizes he's been thrust into a world that is more dangerous than anything he'd imagined. As he travels to Manhattan to rescue Jennifer, forsaking his immortality, he gets caught up in a roller coaster of violence, lies, manipulation, and a power struggle that stretches back thousands of years. Chris Vola's Only the Dead Know Brooklyn takes place in a world where conspiracies are more than just theories -- where Ryan must decide to fight, or forsake both of the species he's called his own.
About the Author
Chris Vola was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1985. A graduate of the Columbia University MFA program, he is the author of six books. These include a short story collection, a poetry collection, two novels, Pour One Out: Cocktail Odes to TV's Most Dearly Departed, a collection of drink recipes paying tribute to beloved deceased television characters, and I is for Illuminati: An A-Z Guide to Our Paranoid Times, a humorous primer on today's biggest conspiracy theories. His articles about literature, drinks, food, and pop culture appear widely in print and online journals, including PopMatters, Paste Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Thrillist, The Rumpus, and Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives in New York and bartends at Little Branch, where he trained under the late cocktail pioneer Sasha Petraske.
