Review: exciting military horror thriller
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2008
Two years ago with earth's nonrenewable energy sources all but depleted and civilizations declining, the vampire horde surfaced and attacked humans.  The vampires won the war.  As the lower species on the food chain, humans have become cattle; a serum given by the vamps to their food supply turns them docile.Still there remain resistance groups including one warrior unit that killed Nero, the leader of the Cabal vampire territory.  Peter Harris accomplished the impossible deed and pushes to go on the offensive since vampires are territorial creatures hiding inside their respective Cabal and the Master Vampires distrust one another.  The Von Kruger Cabal in Indiana has great power but a low human population while the Wentworth Cabalp has no power but a large army.  Using guerilla techniques and warfare, Peter manipulates the pride of each Master so that the Cabals go to war with one another.  However a new danger surfaces as it is learned that the serum proves fatal to humans, thralls and vampires.  Peter is determined to rescue the human cattle while the Von Kruger-Wentworth vampire civil war continues unabated.Part two of The Vampire Apocalypse (see A WORLD TORN ASUNDER) gives readers insight into the thralls, humans who periodically exchange fluids with their master vampire, which turns them into super soldiers.  Many volunteered to survive, but like the purebred humans they have schemes inside of plots to obtain more power.  Derek Gunn is a master vampire writer who provides his fans with a graphic frightening world that hooks the audience as few military horror sagas do.Harriet Klausner