![]() ![]() An accountant with your stereotypically angry boss. Sure, he’s over 300 lbs of solid muscle and worked his way through school engaging in back street bloodsports, but still, he’s an accountant. Owen Zastava Pitt is just your average mild-mannered accountant working in the finance department of a small firm in downtown Dallas. Monster Hunter International: Larry Correia (Baen Books, 2009 713 pp.) And I do mean, “ Gang.” (If those THUG LIFE tats don’t tip it off, the sawed off shotguns and turf wars will.) Fans of his first novel also get several questions answered, such as: In the first novel, we’re introduced to the Trailer Park Elves this time around, it’s a gang of garden Gnomes. His take on the supernatural is both quirky and refreshing, taking accepted mythology and turning it on its head. His writing is both witty and so fast paced that you don’t want to put the book down for any reason while you’re reading it, and feel a sense of dissatisfaction when you get to the end and realize it’s over. There are a lot of things to love in a Correia novel. With that, the stage is set for a rollicking story full of non-stop action as Owen and his compatriots try to thwart the plans of the Death Cult, deal with a government agency that would rather see them disbanded, and as a byproduct of stopping the shadowman, keep him alive. ![]() They’ve been following the movements of the shadowman and his cult organization, “The Sanctified Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition,” and now want to use Owen as bait to draw out their leader. Specifically, the Monster Control Bureau, a subsidiary of the Department of Justice and royal pain in the ass under the leadership of one Agent Myers, himself a former MHI alumni (with a grudge). Yep, that’s right, that same government that ticked off the Elder God. Should be enough to deal with, right?Īha, let’s not forget about the United States government. Okay, Evil necromancer on one side, Evil Undead on the other. ![]() You really don’t want to say “no” to Owen’s mother in law. However, Owen has a problem being allied with the Undead, subscribing to the less known adage that, “ the enemy of my enemy is sometimes also my enemy,” so that idea is a no go. The Englishman is a necromancer, and being Undead themselves, they don’t really want to become enthralled to him, hence, a truce and an alliance. Lucky for him though, they subscribe to the adage that, “ the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” and have come to Owen with a proposition. At the best of times that can be a pain in the neck, but when your in-laws are also Vampires of the nastiest sort, metaphor and reality can become mixed up. If that’s not enough, while there, he gets a visit from his in-laws. Nor does it help that he’s brought a truckload of Zombies with him and released them on the resort’s party-goers.įast forward a couple of hours and poor Owen is stuck in a Mexican prison accused of multiple murder and disavowed by his own government. So, it comes as a surprise to him when he gets a knock on the door, and then a subsequent knock on the head, from a mysterious Englishman, a shadowman of sorts, who remains incorporeal in the shade, but packs a real punch in the light of day. Owen is blissfully unaware of either the nuke or the bounty, contentedly hunting down chupacabras and keeping the Mexican Riviera safe for both the locals and drunken Spring break kids. Ironic that a bounty hunter should have his own bounty. Owen’s not to blame for that, but someone’s got to take the fall, and the Old One (picture Lovecraft’s Cthulu) has decided Owen shall be the one. Apparently, destroying the artifact that would allow it to enter our dimension and slaying a multitude of its acolytes merits attention, as did the tactical nuclear weapon delivered into its posterior, courtesy of the U. You see, during the course of saving the world from the evil forces of another dimension, Owen attracted the attention of an elder God. He’s managed to save the World at least once, met (and courted) the girl of his dreams, and does a job that he loves for a salary that makes life quite comfortable. Monster Hunter-yes middle management drone-no.įast forward a year, and we find Owen in a state of relative contentment. that deals with them, and after a nasty run in with his manager at work (who was also a recent convert to lycanthropy), Pitt discovers that the life of an accountant may not be for him. Monsters are real, the government has a black ops division of the F.B.I. When we last met with Owen Zavasta Pitt, he was still reeling from the discovery that the world as he knew it was not the world as it is. “When Monsters have nightmares, they’re dreaming about us.” MHI Company Handbook ![]()
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