Graveyard Shift: A Novel

Michael F. Haspil

Macmillan, Jul 18, 2017 - Fiction - 352 pages

Police procedurals go supernatural in this gritty urban fantasy debut by Michael F. Haspil in Graveyard Shift

Alex Menkaure once ruled as pharaoh. Marcus once lived in the time of Caesar. Now, mummy and vampire are partners in a special police unit, fighting to keep the streets safe from both supernatural criminals and anti-vampire vigilantes.

When someone starts poisoning the artificial blood used by vampires, relations between vampires and humans deteriorate to the brink of anarchy. While the city threatens to tear itself apart, Alex and Marcus must form an unnatural alliance with a vigilante gang and a shape-shifter woman in a desperate battle against an ancient conspiracy.

If they succeed, they'll be pariahs, hunted by everyone. If they fail, the result will be a war bloodier than any the world has ever seen.

“Gritty urban fantasy and hard-boiled noir packed into a hand grenade of awesome!” —Mario Acevedo, author of Werewolf Smackdown

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User Review  - Glennis.LeBlanc - LibraryThing

Vampires are out to human thanks to a synthetic blood and they even have their own division in the police force to deal with crimes that revolve around them. Alex is a mummy that works in this dept ...

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User Review  - DabOfDarkness - LibraryThing

Vampires are out in the open now and UMBRA, a top secret group of government-funded vampire hunters, has been dismantled. Now Alex, a former UMBRA agent, has to navigate a new world of bloody drinks ...

Contents

• Section 1: 9
• Section 2: 13
• Section 3: 42
• Section 4: 49
• Section 5: 70
• Section 6: 77
• Section 7: 83
• Section 8: 88
• Section 9: 97
• Section 10: 107
• Section 11: 122
• Section 12: 131
• Section 13: 143
• Section 14: 197
• Section 15: 202
• Section 16: 210
• Section 17: 215
• Section 18: 222
• Section 19: 227
• Section 20: 231
• Section 21: 242
• Section 22: 256
• Section 23: 277
• Section 24: 280
• Section 25: 301
• Section 26: 312
• Section 27: 317
• Section 28: 326
• Section 29: 332
• Section 30: 336
• Section 31: 340
• Section 32: 348

About the author

MICHAEL F. HASPIL is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, where he distinguished himself as an ICBM crew commander. After retiring from the military, he served as a launch director at Cape Canaveral. He has been writing original stories for as long as he can remember and has dabbled in many genres. Graveyard Shift is his first novel.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Graveyard Shift: A Novel
• Author: Michael F. Haspil
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2017
• ISBN: 1466869224, 9781466869226
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / Urban; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural; Fiction / Thrillers / Supernatural