Blood Oath, Christopher Farnsworth
Blood Oath, Christopher Farnsworth
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Blood Oath

Author: Christopher Farnsworth

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/18/2010

Synopsis

Zach Barrows is an ambitious young White House staffer whose career takes an unexpected turn when he's partnered with Nathaniel Cade, a secret agent sworn to protect the President. But Cade is no ordinary civil servant. Bound by a special blood oath, he is a vampire. Cade battles nightmares before they can break into the daylight world of the American dream, enemies far stranger-and far more dangerous-than civilians have ever imagined. 
Blood Oath is the first in a series of novels featuring Nathaniel Cade-the President's vampire.

"Christopher Farnsworth's taut thriller Blood Oath is an irresistible page-turner.... A complex and unnervingly realistic tale in which vampire Nathaniel Cade is far less of a monster than his human colleagues at the CIA and FBI. Dazzlingly clever."—The Washington Post

"Blood Oath is exactly how I like my Presidential thrillers. With vampires."—Brad Meltzer, author of The Book of Fate

"Blood Oath is the vampire novel that finally gets it right. Christopher Farnsworth has done his homework in places where most writers wouldn't even know to look-and the result is a rollicking tale of the supernatural grounded in some of the true oddities of American history. If Dan Brown wrote a vampire thriller, this would be it."—Mitch Horowitz, author of Occult America

"As someone who thinks Stoker's Dracula has never been bettered, and who would happily stick a stake through the heart of most modern vampire fiction, it almost pains me to say how much I enjoyed Blood Oath. Witty, exciting, and compulsively readable, with a central character who seems destined to become a favorite of both skeptics and true blood believers, this may just be the best debut vampire novel in many years."—John Connolly, author of The Lovers

About The Author

Christopher Farnsworth is the author of the Nathaniel Cade (President’s Vampire) series and Killfile, a screenwriter, and a former journalist. Farnsworth’s writing has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, New Republic, and Washington Monthly.Bronson Pinchot began talking at 9 months of age. Today, half a century later, he talks into a microphone in a soundproof booth for a living. In between, he attended Yale University as well as the acting programs at Shakespeare & Co. and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Gary on 2012-10-22 16:46:11

a good book with a bunch of conspiracy theories and truths. The president has a vampire and he needs the help of the vampire a fresh take on vampires self loathing and self defeating yes but crazy loyal like a blood hound to the government but there are two sides which is which and who can tell? The devil is close to power and has an agenda if you read this book you will understand the things im trying to say so go and read it already

Goodreads review by Graeme on June 04, 2020

Whitehouse Shocker: Vampire Agent Takes Out The Garbage!: "We'll the cleaners are all unionized and won't touch the supernatural stuff." Reading this particular book helped inspire me to write my own books. I love the well hidden conspiracy of the president of the US having a dedicated vampire super-a......more

Goodreads review by Scottsdale Public Library on August 30, 2022

Vampires, evil scientists, zombies, oh my! Bizarre premise, but the author kept me enthralled from page one to the very end. Zach Barrows has his life all planned out, in the fast track of the world of politics in Washington. Until he's summoned by the President and given a new job- the right-hand m......more

Goodreads review by Marvin on July 25, 2014

Put aside the notions of vampires, Indiana Jones adventure tales, and Dan Brown style conspiracy thrillers. No matter that Blood Oath stirs up all three in a satisfying summer read. This is a moral tale whose moral should be taken very seriously by all aspiring political types. The Moral? Never sleep......more

Goodreads review by Dorsi on July 05, 2017

Excellent debut novel! Even though it was about vampires, like so many other current books, I found this story to be original & fresh. It was well written & interesting. Cade was an awesome vamp! At first I didn't like Zach. He was a whiny, pompous, spoiled brat. Experience & circumstance made him g......more

Goodreads review by Theresa on August 01, 2011

It was only a matter of time, given the current vampire craze, that someone attempted to fuse political intrigue with everyone's favorite blood-suckers. Unfortunately Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth seems to be made up of clichés rather than anything of substance. Nathanial Cade is a vampire who......more

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