Night Watch

A powerful senator’s daughter disappears in a supernatural manner deep in a Virginia forest; upward into thin air leaving a mangled boyfriend behind without a finger or footprint in sight.Sensing extraordinary circumstances, the FBI sends in its most extraordinary team: three centuries-old vampires under the command of a fatalistic special agent code-named Stoker. Rounding out the team are Eugen, a Prussian colonel who fought Napoleon; Lily, a star of the German silent screen; and Wim, a perpetually teenaged Viennese pickpocket.Since being captured during World War II, the three vampires have become the FBIs institutional memory regarding official misdeeds, unexplained phenomena and the things too weird to put into a file cabinet; even for J. Edgar Hoover. Stoker has tamed them – barely – using charm, intimidation and homemade deterrents. After 30 years, he still lives one wrong word away from having the arrogant Eugen kill him, or worse. Complicating their investigation is its location: Front Royal, Virginia, “Where weird is what we do.” Aided by a mousy female deputy, Penny, her redneck boss, the sheriff, and an assortment of oddball locals, the FBI’s most-special special agents discover they are facing another group of covert vampires led by the ruthless Nazi Kessler – the man who bargained Lilly into her current state – and Wim’s mentor, the ancient spymaster Clarence Giese.Left on their own through a deal cut by the senator and Kessler, the FBI team and locals have to storm a castle in the scenic Blue Ridge, and the caverns below, to defeat a small army of the undead.Before “Night Watch” reaches its thrilling conclusion, it answers some important questions:•Does dating a hundred-year-old teenage vampire make you a “cougar”?•Do holy water and baseball mix?•Why do vampires fear a Georgetown gourmet shop? •How do they use a make-up mirror? •How many redneck names end in “lene”?•How big does a double-wide have to be before you sell your soul?•Are elves a credible home-security system?

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