<b>CODE 61: maintain radio silence. someone may be listening.<br><br></b>Investigating the apparent suicide of a colleague&#8217;s niece, Iowa Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman is startled to uncover a group that transforms the dark fantasies of vampire legend into grisly reality: they ritualistically drink small amounts of one another&#8217;s blood. As Carl is drawn deeper into this unnerving world, it becomes clear that the dead woman may have been the victim of a twenty-first-century Dracula.<br><br>The prime suspect, Dan Peale, is a sinister presence within the group--a man some say drinks blood and never, ever dies. It&#8217;s an outlandish, heinous theory, but then suspicions are bolstered by rumors of a card-carrying vampire hunter who is also pursuing Peale. All too soon, Houseman finds himself scrambling to track a vampire--before he kills again.