There are worse things in this world than al-Qaeda and North Korea, Zach. And they are just waiting for their chance at us. Sharp and ambitious, Zach Barrows is on his way up. But when he gets a call from the White House, it’s not quite the promotion he expected. Zach is to be the new political liaison officer to America’s best kept secret: Nathaniel Cade. The President’s vampire. And Cade is the world’s only hope against a horrifying new terrorist threat advancing from the Middle East. The fight is deadlier than ever, and time is running out… I had, like many people, been put off vampire novels by Stephenie Meyer. I tried Twilight and couldn’t get through it, the same too with the works of Charlaine Harris (Southern Vampire series). After that I had not so much as glanced at a vampire novel until Christopher Farnsworth’s Blood Oath appeared on the scene and – from the blurb - it appeared that the contents were likely to be more action-based than the romance-inspired young ad...