Daylighters

This is the final book in the Morganville Vampires series, a series which I have gotten every book and enjoyed every single one. The basic plot in this final volume is that a group called the Daylight Foundation, headed by a sleezeball named Fallon, has captured all the vampires in the town and has them under control, using the threat of instant death to keep them in one place.

When Claire and the others get back to town they are taken into custody (illegally, of course, as there are many violations of individual rights in this story under the idea that the vampires are in 'protective custody' and Claire and the others are needed for questioning and re-education).

Fallons techniques are very similar to that of Hitler, and the way many of the townspeople behave is very similar to how many Germans reacted to enthusiastically to Hitler's program of terrorism, avoidance of all human rights, and killing those he considered 'inferior.') In other words, there's a lot of lessons to be learned in this story.

There's a lot of violence by Fallon's henchmen and virtually nothing seems to be prohibited to them. So, somehow, Claire and the others need to find a way to deal with Fallon, keep themselves from being hurt by his henchmen or by the police (who are now under Fallon's control, just like the S.S. in Hitler's Germany), try to free themselves when needed and free vampires if possible, win over the townpeople to their side and somehow manage to do this all before Fallon has the vampire's murdered and Claire and the others under his control.

Lots of action and lots of lessons in this final, perhaps the best book, in the series.

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