"The President's Vampire" ~ Christopher Farnsworth

     This is the second book in Farnsworth's Nathanial Cade series.  Cade is a vampire who was turned and then willfully bound by a voodoo curse to serve the President of the United States and his appointed agents. The first book "Blood Oath" was enough fun that I kept an eye out for the next book.  I would classify these books as political thriller with some supernatural.  Honestly, though, what doesn't have a hint of the supernatural these days.  Not that I mind, it's just that my genres used to be pretty standoff-ish toward each other.  Here's one of my favorite bits that illustrates this fraternization as Farnsworth describes the bad guy's top secret, hidden base. 

"There were ley lines to be considered, the position of the stars and the ritual of sacrifice. (He) knew better than to questions these touches.  After a while, he began to think of them as another section of the building codes, like occult OSHA regulations."

The occult OSHA regulations just made me laugh. Oh, and just wait until you find out where it is.

     The book starts out a little slow for me.  Also, I found the snippets at the beginning of each chapter kind of distracting.  And you are told who the villain is pretty early on.  And you don't get enough back story on Innsmouth.  Ok, those are my biggest gripes.  Other than that..."The President's Vampire" is fun.  It's action packed, moves right along, no crazy left turns, and the writing is short and to the point.  Not being a military person, I can't say how accurate the gun, weapon, military portions are, but they sound good to me.

     Cade doesn't get much character development this book.  Zach, Cade's "handler" gets a little more, but not much.  I'd like to see the author spend a whole chapter in Cade's past not just those snippets.  Maybe next time.  Farnsworth also does a good job with the bloody bits without grossing me out.  It would be easy to cross over from horrific to cheesy.   This book was an easy read, which I mean in the best possible way, and I liked it enough to see when the next one is coming out (April 26th, 2012)