The President's Vampire is the second in the Nathaniel Cade series by Christopher Famsworth. This time around, Cade goes up against genetically engineered lizard people. I love the idea of conspiracy theories and paranormal combining! The story makes for a fun mash up of history, pop culture, supernatural horror and politics. The final third and climax of the book is a gore fest. On the down side, I can't stand how the scenes with Zach and the Company people sound like a bunch of frat boys. Those scenes make me cringe while listening to them. Good for Zach to go all in by the end. Cade could use that commitment from his partner. ( )

Most of the titles in my little collection of "books I had to quit" get a single star. I couldn't bring myself to do that with this book. I still like the idea of the series a lot. I just wasn't feeling this one. I didn't hate it or want to throw it through a window. I just thought it was mediocre, and I'm not in the mood to settle. I only read about a quarter of the way, so maybe I didn't give it enough time. I might try it again on a different day in a different mood. For now, I bid a lukewarm farewell to Zach and Cade. ( )

The President's Vampire was a wild combination of a paranormal plot with a military/spy thriller amped up by the conspiracy theory of conspiracy theories.

From the very beginning, so many plotlines and red herrings going in different directions kept me guessing, something which is hard to do. I can usually figure out the end pretty quickly.

This book, while involving genetic experimentation, centuries old Vampires and Somalian pirates, managed to be story and character driven rather than just a graphically gory tale.

Despite the unlikeliness of the conspiracy theories documented, I found myself at the end of the book scratching my head and wondering, maybe? I highly recommend this book! ( )

Zach Barrows and Nathaniel Cade have their hands full of lizard men, political backstabbing and espionage. Cade has encountered similar lizard men before, but the new breed are even more dangerous than the previous batch. Between the two of them, Zach and Cade have a lot of work to do to quill the future horror of a supposed New World Order and the possibility of the Other Side breaking through for real.

I love that Innsmouth and even Dunwich made an appearance. Never read any Lovecraft, but he sure has a lot of influence these days.

Christopher Farnsworth writes a good, tight story, full of conspiracy theory, urban legend and things that go bump in the night. If anything, this is an even better than [b:Blood Oath|6662410|Blood Oath (Nathaniel Cade #1)|Christopher Farnsworth|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1275621832s/6662410.jpg|6857193] and that was a pretty good book. This is a fun read. I look forward to more in the Nathaniel Cade series. ( )

I really wanted to like this book, but the initial chapters were just so farfetched that I couldn't past them and then need to give every dead body a disgusting back story at the end was too much. Oh well. ( )