The writing is tight, the story fairly simple but with a nice level of characterisation around the primary protagonists. But, despite this, we are talking a supernatural state and there is a story thread about a mystical book that Adams had entrusted to him but has been unable to have translated. There is a viral aspect to the vampirism with a strain of yellow fever detected in victims. Pitted against him is a small-town beat cop, James Sangster Jr., whose father has been murdered on the job (he was a Philly detective) and the medical examiner who, with Sangster Snr, had uncovered the vampire menace – neither of them able to tell their superiors as they wouldn’t be believed. The patient zero is 2nd US president John Adams and he believes that America has fallen so far, this is the way to rescue it from itself. The review: What to say about this graphic novel? Set in Philadelphia it tracks what is hoped, by the character of the centre of the conspiracy, to be the start of the vampire apocalypse.
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