The Darkness After Midnight — Alan Brown

Booger T. McClain is back!Intrepid private investigator Booker T. McClain returns and is drawn into the most bizarre and dangerous case in his career as he confronts a mafia-style organization known as The Order, compiled of government officials, law enforcement officers, political and social icons, has a stranglehold on the market of sex, crime, drugs and murder in the Missouri area. The deeper Booker digs the more corruption he uncovers and the more dangerous it becomes. Hidden in the tunnels under the city, Booker finds a satanic cult of would-be Vampires that is responsible for the disappearance of a number of Springfield young women, whose bodies are never found.Even as Booker pursues his suspects, his enemies have drawn up plans to get rid of their nemesis and contracts are let to make certain that Booker will bother them no more. One sole man against The Order? Booker has never faced such a formidable foe. Booker's survival seems unlikely, however, he has a secret weapon: his wife and partner, Rose.