For one thing, John Carpenter's movie doesn't even have the Felix character, and for another thing the this book takes advantage of Steakley's strength which is character develpment and battles with ones self rather than with evil. But as I progressed in this book I was grateful to learn that this is not only more complex, it's a totally different story (and way better). I looked up imdb and saw that Steakley wrote John Carpenter's Vampires. At first I thought, "Gosh this sounds a lot like John Carpenter's Vampires" but with much more character development. Vampires is basically a new incarnation of the same wonderful anti-heroes that Armor had but in our world instead of the future. I view them much like the Champion Eternal characters of Michael Moorcock where Moorcock made several incarnations of the same anti-heroes (Elric, Corwin, Hawkmoon, etc.). I was particularly grateful to John Steakley for bringing to life another incarnation of his Jack Crow and Felix characters. The other book "Armor" by the same author and same narrator is one of my all time favorite books and audio books, and Vampire$ brought back that same kind of excitement (perhaps only 90% as much as Armor, but 90% of best is still better than almost everything else). I very muched enjoyed this John Steakley "Vampires Inc." story narrated by Tom Weiner.
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