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** Marie Laveau,the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, bound Cade to the service of the President, by order to Andrew Johnson.
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** Marie Laveau,the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, bound Cade to the service of the President, by order to Andrew Johnson.Johnson, using the bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln as part of the spell.
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* BadBoss: Definitely Helen Holt.
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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Conrad_Dippel Johann Konrad]], the real-life basis for Shelley's [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Doctor Frankenstein]], perfected his Elixer of Youth, and has been using it to live for centuries and continue his obscene work. Apparently Mary Shelley got the idea for the novel while on holiday near Konrad's family castle and hearing the accounts of his atrocities.
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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Conrad_Dippel Johann Konrad]], the real-life basis for Shelley's [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Doctor Frankenstein]], perfected his Elixer of Youth, and has been using it to live for centuries and continue his obscene work. Apparently Mary Shelley got the idea for the novel while on holiday near Konrad's family castle and hearing the accounts of his atrocities. Konrad is also implied to have been responsible for saving Ronald's Reagan's life after the assassination attempt on his life in 1981, resulting in the U.S. Government giving him a pardon (much to Cade's fury).
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** ''The President's Vampire'': [[spoiler: The Shadow Company's plans to unleash the Snakeheads on America and trigger the Apocalypse is foiled, and the Company is dealt a severe blow with the death of its agent Graves, but Zach is forced to accept that his association with Cade will forever deny him a normal life, and his chances of a relationship go out the window when the girl he was seeing turns out to be a Shadow Company operative who, realising she's in too deep, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifices herself]] to both save Cade and Zach an dmake amends for her sins]].
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** ''The President's Vampire'': [[spoiler: The Shadow Company's plans to unleash the Snakeheads on America and trigger the Apocalypse is foiled, and the Company is dealt a severe blow with the death of its agent Graves, but Zach is forced to accept that his association with Cade will forever deny him a normal life, and his chances of a relationship go out the window when the girl he was seeing turns out to be a Shadow Company operative who, realising she's in too deep, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifices herself]] to both save Cade and Zach an dmake and make amends for her sins]].sins]].
** ''Red, White and Blood'': [[spoiler: The Boogeyman is finally defeated and imprisoned with no chance of escape, but numerous people have died, including Zach's father, Zach's hopes of salvaging a relationship with Candace end when she breaks it off, stating she can't handle the monsters he deals with every day in her life, Holt is still alive (possibly undead) and even ''more'' determined to get her revenge, and top it all, Wyman is able to assassinate President Curtis, pass it off as a heart attack and get himself sworn in as President, leaving Zach and Cade with a man who despises them, who they suspect to be a Shadow Company associate, and is far too willing to take advantage of the Other Side, as their new boss]].
** ''Red, White and Blood'': [[spoiler: The Boogeyman is finally defeated and imprisoned with no chance of escape, but numerous people have died, including Zach's father, Zach's hopes of salvaging a relationship with Candace end when she breaks it off, stating she can't handle the monsters he deals with every day in her life, Holt is still alive (possibly undead) and even ''more'' determined to get her revenge, and top it all, Wyman is able to assassinate President Curtis, pass it off as a heart attack and get himself sworn in as President, leaving Zach and Cade with a man who despises them, who they suspect to be a Shadow Company associate, and is far too willing to take advantage of the Other Side, as their new boss]].
** While Konrad is implied to have saved Reagan's life in 1981, it's indicated that the President never fully recovered from the injury and towards the end of his second term became quite zombie-like in behaviour.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Why Konrad was allowed to live, despite Cade urging the U.S. Government to kill him for his sins after World War II.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Why Konrad was allowed to live, despite Cade urging the U.S. Government to kill him for his sins after World War II.
* DealWithTheDevil: The U.S. Government pardons Konrad for his part in saving President Reagan's life after the 1981 assassination attempt, on the condition he hands over the formula for the Elixir of Life and agrees not to create any more ''Unmenschensoldaten''.
* EvilIsPetty: During her time in the CIA, Holt exposed her entire team to the Islamic extremists they were shadowing, resulting in their deaths, because she was angry they were sidelining her because she was the junior member of the team. This got her noticed by the Shadow Company.
* FateWorseThanDeath:
** Tania notes to Cade if he refuses to feed on human blood, he will eventually suffer this.
** Holt notes that for those who screw over the Shadow Company, the punishments only ''start'' at death.
* FateWorseThanDeath:
** Tania notes to Cade if he refuses to feed on human blood, he will eventually suffer this.
** Holt notes that for those who screw over the Shadow Company, the punishments only ''start'' at death.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When Holt asks why the Shadow Company doesn't send a message to Cade to back off by killing Zach, her handler coldly tells her that the last time the Company killed one of Cade's handlers, the President gave him full discretion to do what he saw fit to those responsible. The Company apparently had to cut loose a great many of its agents to cover their tracks, and is not prepared to deal with that kind of fallout again.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When Holt asks why the Shadow Company doesn't send a message to Cade to back off by killing Zach, her handler superior coldly tells her that the last time the Company killed one of Cade's handlers, the President gave him full discretion to do what he saw fit to those responsible. The Company apparently had to cut loose a great many of its agents to cover their tracks, and is not prepared to deal with that kind of fallout again.
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* ZombieApocalypse:
** [[spoiler: The ''Unmenschensoldaten'' attack at the end of Blood Oath has overtures of this]].
** The Shadow Company tries to pull this in ''The President's Vampire''. ([[spoiler: Although technically it's more of a Lizardman Apocalypse]]).
** [[spoiler: The ''Unmenschensoldaten'' attack at the end of Blood Oath has overtures of this]].
** The Shadow Company tries to pull this in ''The President's Vampire''. ([[spoiler: Although technically it's more of a Lizardman Apocalypse]]).
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* AristocratsAreEvil: In his heyday, Konrad was a baron and has never forgotten that fact, leading him to look on present-day humans (particularly Americans) as naive children who've never seen or endured true hardship. It's also one of the reasons he despises Cade; Konrad believes his rank elevates him above Cade, and is angered that Cade doesn't know to respect his betters.
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** JackTheRipper was a "starchild" created by Aleister Crowley, in the same sort of ritual that later created the Boogeyman.
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** JackTheRipper was a "starchild" created by Aleister Crowley, in the same sort of ritual that later created the Boogeyman. That ritual was performed by Francis Tumblety, an American quack who was one of the primary suspects in the Ripper case.
* DeathBySex: When Zach ask why [[spoiler: the Boogeyman's victims tend to be couples having sex, Cade remarks that Griff theorised that since the Boogeyman is preconditioned to hate life, it despises sex as the ultimate expression of that]].
* DisappearedDad: Zach and his father Frank do not have a good relationship; Zach resents the fact that his father was never around during his childhood, and seemed more concerned with indulging his alcoholism and womanising than his family. [[spoiler: Zach is also angry that his father blackmailed him for money with the threat of revealing his past brushes with the law and that Frank didn't bother to show up and at least try to make amends to Zach's mother when she was dying]].
* DisappearedDad: Zach and his father Frank do not have a good relationship; Zach resents the fact that his father was never around during his childhood, and seemed more concerned with indulging his alcoholism and womanising than his family. [[spoiler: Zach is also angry that his father blackmailed him for money with the threat of revealing his past brushes with the law and that Frank didn't bother to show up and at least try to make amends to Zach's mother when she was dying]].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: In the President's Vampire, when one of the research team suggests Konrad might be behind the [[Snakehead virus outbreak]], Zach dismisses the idea, explaining that Konrad never wants anything to do with Innsmouth ([[spoiler: the original source of the virus]]) because he considers that sort of thing beneath him. Zach also adds that if Konrad were behind such a thing, it would have his signature all over it, because [[ItsPersonal he'd want Cade to know he was responsible]].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: In the President's Vampire, when one of the research team suggests Konrad might be behind the [[Snakehead [[apoiler:Snakehead virus outbreak]], Zach dismisses the idea, explaining that Konrad never wants anything to do with Innsmouth ([[spoiler: the original source of the virus]]) because he considers that sort of thing beneath him. Zach also adds that if Konrad were behind such a thing, it would have his signature all over it, because [[ItsPersonal he'd want Cade to know he was responsible]].responsible]].
** Konrad himself expresses this as the reason why he refused Hitler's order to have his flu virus varient used as a bio-weapon against England during World War II, as he was concerned with the virus's potential to spread out of check.
** Konrad himself expresses this as the reason why he refused Hitler's order to have his flu virus varient used as a bio-weapon against England during World War II, as he was concerned with the virus's potential to spread out of check.
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* {{Animorphism}}: Cade and US government believe this vampire myth to be false, but Tania can turn into a bird and it's implied that all vampires that feed on human blood can do this.
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* {{Animorphism}}: Cade and US government believe this vampire myth to be false, but Tania can turn into a bird bird/bat and it's implied that all vampires that feed on human blood can do this.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Both Cade and Konrad had taken part in many major events of last century, including World Wars and Nigerian civil war.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Both Cade and Konrad had taken part in many major events of last century, including both World Wars and the Nigerian civil war.
* BittersweetEnding: All three novels have this:
** ''Blood Oath'': [[spoiler: The President is saved, the ''Unmenschensoldaten'' attack on the White House is thwarted and the jihadist cell behind it destroyed, but Griff is dead (along with his knowledge Vice President Wyman is the traitor in the ranks), while Konrad and Holt escape justice and remain at large]].
** ''The President's Vampire'': [[spoiler: The Shadow Company's plans to unleash the Snakeheads on America and trigger the Apocalypse is foiled, and the Company is dealt a severe blow with the death of its agent Graves, but Zach is forced to accept that his association with Cade will forever deny him a normal life, and his chances of a relationship go out the window when the girl he was seeing turns out to be a Shadow Company operative who, realising she's in too deep, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifices herself]] to both save Cade and Zach an dmake amends for her sins]].
** ''Blood Oath'': [[spoiler: The President is saved, the ''Unmenschensoldaten'' attack on the White House is thwarted and the jihadist cell behind it destroyed, but Griff is dead (along with his knowledge Vice President Wyman is the traitor in the ranks), while Konrad and Holt escape justice and remain at large]].
** ''The President's Vampire'': [[spoiler: The Shadow Company's plans to unleash the Snakeheads on America and trigger the Apocalypse is foiled, and the Company is dealt a severe blow with the death of its agent Graves, but Zach is forced to accept that his association with Cade will forever deny him a normal life, and his chances of a relationship go out the window when the girl he was seeing turns out to be a Shadow Company operative who, realising she's in too deep, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrifices herself]] to both save Cade and Zach an dmake amends for her sins]].
* JustFollowingOrders: Plenty of mooks and underlings try to explain away their involvement in the Other Side's plans as this. Cade is never swayed by it.
-->'''Cade''': Just following orders? I was there when that defence was invented. It didn't work then, either.
-->'''Cade''': Just following orders? I was there when that defence was invented. It didn't work then, either.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When Holt asks why the Shadow Company doesn't send a message to Cade to back off by killing Zach, her handler coldly tells her that the last time the Company killed one of Cade's handlers, the President gave him full discretion to do what he saw fit to those responsible. The Company apparently had to cut loose a great many of its agents to cover their tracks, and is not prepared to deal with that kind of fallout again.
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* SmugSnake: Colonel Graves in ''The President's Vampire'' is one, [[spoiler: confident that his presidential pardon for his involvement in Kennedy's assassination protects him from Cade's wrath. He's disabused of this at the end of the novel where Csde reveals that the current President has rescinded the pardon and branded him an enemy combatant, meaning Cade has free rein to do what he likes]].
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* SmugSnake: SmugSnake:
** Helen Holt oozes this, believing that she's manipulating Konrad, the Shadow Company and the Boogeyman into doing her bidding when in truth [[spoiler: all three are perfectly aware she plans to betray them at some point, and simply use that to get to do what they want before discarding her when she's of no more use]].
** Colonel Graves in ''The President's Vampire'' is another one, [[spoiler: confident that his presidential pardon for his involvement in Kennedy's assassination protects him from Cade's wrath. He's disabused of this at the end of the novel whereCsde Cade reveals that the current President has rescinded the pardon and branded him an enemy combatant, meaning Cade has free rein to do what he likes]].
** Helen Holt oozes this, believing that she's manipulating Konrad, the Shadow Company and the Boogeyman into doing her bidding when in truth [[spoiler: all three are perfectly aware she plans to betray them at some point, and simply use that to get to do what they want before discarding her when she's of no more use]].
** Colonel Graves in ''The President's Vampire'' is another one, [[spoiler: confident that his presidential pardon for his involvement in Kennedy's assassination protects him from Cade's wrath. He's disabused of this at the end of the novel where
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* TheOneWhoGotAway: Zach's relationship with the President's daughter Candace has elements of this. After their indiscretion in the Lincoln Bedroom, Zach is reassigned to work with Cade (as, he assumes, a punishment for trying to screw the First Daughter) and she jets off to California before anything more can happen. They meet up again on her father's campaign trail and for a time it looks like they might hit it off, but after [[spoiler: Candace's near-death encounter with the Boogeymen aboard Air Force One]], she breaks it off again, sadly stating she can't handle the monsters Zach deals with every day in her life.
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* TheOneWhoGotAway: TheOneThatGotAway: Zach's relationship with the President's daughter Candace has elements of this. After their indiscretion in the Lincoln Bedroom, Zach is reassigned to work with Cade (as, he assumes, a punishment for trying to screw the First Daughter) and she jets off to California before anything more can happen. They meet up again on her father's campaign trail and for a time it looks like they might hit it off, but after [[spoiler: Candace's near-death encounter with the Boogeymen aboard Air Force One]], she breaks it off again, sadly stating she can't handle the monsters Zach deals with every day in her life.
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* AffablyEvil: Helen comes of as pleasant and helpful woman most of the time, while in fact, she's very probably a psychopath.
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* AffablyEvil: Helen comes of as pleasant and helpful woman most of the time, while in fact, she's very probably a psychopath.
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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Conrad_Dippel Johann Konrad]], the real-life basis for Shelley's [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Doctor Frankenstein]], perfected his Elixer of Youth, and has been using it to live for centuries and continue his obscene work.
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** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Conrad_Dippel Johann Konrad]], the real-life basis for Shelley's [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Doctor Frankenstein]], perfected his Elixer of Youth, and has been using it to live for centuries and continue his obscene work. Apparently Mary Shelley got the idea for the novel while on holiday near Konrad's family castle and hearing the accounts of his atrocities.
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** John Wilkes Booth was a patsy of the Order, who faked his own death in 1865 and went into hiding, until the guilt caught up with him decades later and he started drunkenly announcing the truth. So Cade hunted him down and killed him.
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** John Wilkes Booth was a patsy of the Order, who faked his own death in 1865 and went into hiding, until the guilt caught up with him decades later and he started drunkenly announcing the truth. So Cade hunted him down and killed him.him, though admittedly he made it quick and painless.
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* BerserkButton: Whenever Johann Konrad appears in vicinity, Cade's RedOniBlueOni relationship with Zach gets instantly reversed and he's ''inches'' short from killing the man on spot.
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* BerserkButton: Whenever Johann Konrad appears in vicinity, Cade's RedOniBlueOni relationship with Zach gets instantly reversed and he's ''inches'' short from killing the man on the spot.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: In the President's Vampire, when one of the research team suggests Konrad might be behind the [[Snakehead virus outbreak]], Zach dismisses the idea, explaining that Konrad never wants anything to do with Innsmouth ([[spoiler: the original source of the virus]]) because he considers that sort of thing beneath him. Zach also adds that if Konrad were behind such a thing, it would have his signature all over it, because [[ItsPersonal he'd want Cade to know he was responsible]].
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* FrankensteinsMonster: The original one was destroyed by a TorchesAndPitchforks crowd, but original Frankenstein, Johann Konrad, still creates them, calling them ''Unmenschensoldaten''.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Nathaniel tries to be one, drinking only animals' blood and serving the US government in fight against creature to whom he's technically closer than to humans, although his personality rather defies the "friendly" part.
* {{Ghostapo}}: Hitler wanted Konrad to create Frankenstein Monsters for him to use in combat, and create epidemics that would wipe out the British. Konrad was experimenting with the former, but refused to do the latter, on the ground that epidemic can easily turn against its master.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Nathaniel tries to be one, drinking only animals' blood and serving the US government in fight against creature to whom he's technically closer than to humans, although his personality rather defies the "friendly" part.
* {{Ghostapo}}: Hitler wanted Konrad to create Frankenstein Monsters for him to use in combat, and create epidemics that would wipe out the British. Konrad was experimenting with the former, but refused to do the latter, on the ground that epidemic can easily turn against its master.
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* FrankensteinsMonster: The original one was destroyed by a TorchesAndPitchforks crowd, but the original Frankenstein, Johann Konrad, still creates them, calling them ''Unmenschensoldaten''.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Nathaniel tries to be one, drinking only animals' blood and serving the US government in fight againstcreature creatures to whom he's technically closer than to humans, although his personality rather defies the "friendly" part.
* FluffyTamer: Apparently Griff got the Mongolian Death Worm Cade keeps as a trophy/pet in the Reliquary to eat hot dogs.
* {{Ghostapo}}: Hitler wanted Konrad to create Frankenstein Monsters for him to use in combat, and create epidemics that would wipe out the British. Konrad was experimenting with the former, but refused to do the latter, on the ground that said epidemic can easily turn against its master.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Nathaniel tries to be one, drinking only animals' blood and serving the US government in fight against
* FluffyTamer: Apparently Griff got the Mongolian Death Worm Cade keeps as a trophy/pet in the Reliquary to eat hot dogs.
* {{Ghostapo}}: Hitler wanted Konrad to create Frankenstein Monsters for him to use in combat, and create epidemics that would wipe out the British. Konrad was experimenting with the former, but refused to do the latter, on the ground that said epidemic can easily turn against its master.
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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Cade has this in spades and it's up to Tania and Zach to pull him out of it. Long story short, he'd devout Calvinist convinced he's a monster who can't redeem itself and can only try to do good until finally something beats him and he'll burn in Hell.
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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Cade has this in spades and it's up to Tania and Zach to pull him out of it. Long story short, he'd he's a devout Calvinist convinced he's a monster who can't redeem itself and can only try to do good until finally something beats him and he'll burn in Hell.
* ImmodestOrgasm: Tania is this when she visits [[FriendsWithBenefits Cade to take advantage of him]], much to Zach's annoyance.
* KarmaHoudini:
** Konrad in Blood Oath. Though Cade desperately wants to kill him, he knows that taking the few minutes needed to rip Konrad's spine out through his chest might be the few minutes that cost the President his life. Cade leaves to thwart the attack on the White House and Konrad escapes to Pakistan with his jihadi allies.
** Helen Holt does this a lot.
** Vice President Lester Wyman. Though a fair few people suspect him of being involved [[spoiler: in the ''Unmenschensoldaten'' attack on the White House]], by the end of the novel, those who do are either dead or don't have enough proof to condemn him. He's later able to use this to [[spoiler: assassinate President Curtis, fake the death as a heart attack and get himself sworn in]].
** Konrad in Blood Oath. Though Cade desperately wants to kill him, he knows that taking the few minutes needed to rip Konrad's spine out through his chest might be the few minutes that cost the President his life. Cade leaves to thwart the attack on the White House and Konrad escapes to Pakistan with his jihadi allies.
** Helen Holt does this a lot.
** Vice President Lester Wyman. Though a fair few people suspect him of being involved [[spoiler: in the ''Unmenschensoldaten'' attack on the White House]], by the end of the novel, those who do are either dead or don't have enough proof to condemn him. He's later able to use this to [[spoiler: assassinate President Curtis, fake the death as a heart attack and get himself sworn in]].
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* OddCouple: One's an ambitious White House politician and a smooth talker, the other is immortal, antisocial vampire.
* OldSoldier: Griff has been Cade's partner for over three decades and there's little that would surprise him anymore. Even before this assignment, he was FBI agent, so he has a lot of experience to draw from.
* OldSoldier: Griff has been Cade's partner for over three decades and there's little that would surprise him anymore. Even before this assignment, he was FBI agent, so he has a lot of experience to draw from.
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* OddCouple: One's an ambitious White House politician and a smooth talker, the other is an immortal, antisocial vampire.
* OhCrap: A lot of people who get on the wrong side of Cade exhibit this, usually just seconds before [[CruelAndUnusualDeath he rips their throats out/turns their trachea into a necklace/bends bones in ways they're not mend to bend, etc...]]
* OldSoldier: Griff has been Cade's partner for over three decades and there's little that would surprise him anymore. Even before this assignment, he was an FBI agent, so he has a lot of experience to draw from.
* OhCrap: A lot of people who get on the wrong side of Cade exhibit this, usually just seconds before [[CruelAndUnusualDeath he rips their throats out/turns their trachea into a necklace/bends bones in ways they're not mend to bend, etc...]]
* OldSoldier: Griff has been Cade's partner for over three decades and there's little that would surprise him anymore. Even before this assignment, he was an FBI agent, so he has a lot of experience to draw from.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The Snakeheads. Zach states this trope as the reason why Konrad wouldn't be behind this threat.
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* RunningGag: Cade chastising someone for taking Lord's name in vain.
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: As per his oath, Konrad really goes to town on those he considers to have betrayed the United States. Plenty have [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled chosen suicide over facing Cade's fury]].
* RunningGag: Cade chastising someone for taking the Lord's name in vain.
* RunningGag: Cade chastising someone for taking the Lord's name in vain.
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* SmugSnake: Colonel Graves in ''The President's Vampire'' is one, [[spoiler: confident that his presidential pardon for his involvement in Kennedy's assassination protects him from Cade's wrath. He's disabused of this at the end of the novel where Csde reveals that the current President has rescinded the pardon and branded him an enemy combatant, meaning Cade has free rein to do what he likes]].
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* TheOneWhoGotAway: Zach's relationship with the President's daughter Candace has elements of this. After their indiscretion in the Lincoln Bedroom, Zach is reassigned to work with Cade (as, he assumes, a punishment for trying to screw the First Daughter) and she jets off to California before anything more can happen. They meet up again on her father's campaign trail and for a time it looks like they might hit it off, but after [[spoiler: Candace's near-death encounter with the Boogeymen aboard Air Force One]], she breaks it off again, sadly stating she can't handle the monsters Zach deals with every day in her life.
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As it turns out, there is an entire world of supernatural creatures that, for most part, consider humans to be tasty and healthy meal, and many people who want to use black magic against the general public. Between them and unknowing civilians stands [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Nathaniel Cade]], a vampire bound by a blood oath to serve the President of the United States, whoever he might be. He's been doing this job for over fourteen decades and gone through dozens of partners - the last of which is supposed to be Zach.
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As it turns out, there is an entire world of supernatural creatures that, for most part, consider humans to be tasty and healthy meal, and many people who want to use black magic against the general public. Between them and unknowing civilians stands [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Nathaniel Cade]], a vampire bound by a blood oath to serve the President of the United States, whoever he might be. He's been doing this job for over fourteen decades and gone through dozens of partners - the last latest of which is supposed to be Zach.
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* ThePresidentsDaughter: Apparently, Zach spent a pleasant night with her, which he suspects to be the reason why his career was derailed.
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* CameBackWrong: ''Unmanschensoldaten'' are built from dead soldiers brought back to life to do their creators' bidding, and they're not aware of it - when we see a POV of one, he has no idea what's going on and wonders if he's in Hell.
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* CameBackWrong: ''Unmanschensoldaten'' ''Unmenschensoldaten'' are built from dead soldiers brought back to life to do their creators' bidding, and they're not aware of it - when we see a POV of one, he has no idea what's going on and wonders if he's in Hell.
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* ChekhovsGun: At the beginning of the first book, Cade recovers an artifact from a group of Slavic werewolves. At the climax of the book, [[spoiler: it turns out to be the petrified hand of John the Baptist, which Cade uses to rekill the last ''Unmanschensoldaten''.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: At the beginning of the first book, Cade recovers an artifact from a group of Slavic werewolves. At the climax of the book, [[spoiler: it turns out to be the petrified hand of John the Baptist, which Cade uses to rekill the last ''Unmanschensoldaten''.''Unmenschensoldaten''.]]
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* FrankensteinsMonster: The original one was destroyed by a TorchesAndPitchforks crowd, but original Frankenstein, Johann Konrad, still creates them, calling them ''Unmanschensoldaten''.
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* FrankensteinsMonster: The original one was destroyed by a TorchesAndPitchforks crowd, but original Frankenstein, Johann Konrad, still creates them, calling them ''Unmanschensoldaten''.''Unmenschensoldaten''.
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* GratuitousGerman: The Frankenstein monsters are called ''Unmanschensoldaten'', which is German for "Inhuman Soldiers".
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* GratuitousGerman: The Frankenstein monsters are called ''Unmanschensoldaten'', ''Unmenschensoldaten'', which is German for "Inhuman Soldiers".
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Cade will fight with anything he can get his hands on. The best example is at the climax of the first book, where he hits an ''Unmanschensoldaten'' with [[spoiler: ''the Resolute Desk'']].
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Cade will fight with anything he can get his hands on. The best example is at the climax of the first book, where he hits an ''Unmanschensoldaten'' ''Unmenschensoldaten'' with [[spoiler: ''the Resolute Desk'']].
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Shadow Company and, if you [[BilingualBonus know German]], ''Unmanschensoldaten''.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Shadow Company and, if you [[BilingualBonus know German]], ''Unmanschensoldaten''.''Unmenschensoldaten''.
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* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Cade spends the whole first book calling Zac "Barrows". Come the [[spoiler: ''Unmanschensoldaten'' attack on the White House]] at the climax, he actually calls him "Zac".
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The reason Griff is retiring in the first book is because he has cancer. [[spoiler: And then he's killed by an ''Unmanschensoldaten'' at the book's climax.]]
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The reason Griff is retiring in the first book is because he has cancer. [[spoiler: And then he's killed by an ''Unmanschensoldaten'' at the book's climax.]]
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* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Cade spends the whole first book calling Zac "Barrows". Come the [[spoiler: ''Unmanschensoldaten'' ''Unmenschensoldaten'' attack on the White House]] at the climax, he actually calls him "Zac".
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The reason Griff is retiring in the first book is because he has cancer. [[spoiler: And then he's killed by an''Unmanschensoldaten'' ''Unmenschensoldaten'' at the book's climax.]]
* YourDaysAreNumbered: The reason Griff is retiring in the first book is because he has cancer. [[spoiler: And then he's killed by an
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* LandmarkingTheSecretBase: The Reliquary, Cade's lair, is in a secret chamber underneath the Smithsonian Castle.
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* CollectorOfTheStrange: Cade likes to keep trophies of his missions.
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* CleanUpCrew: Cade and Zac employ one to help maintain TheMasquerade.
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* EvilChancellor: Les Wyman is the Vice-President version of this trope, being in deep with the Shadow Company, though having his own agenda. [[spoiler: At the end of ''Red, White, and Blood'', he assassinates Curtis, allowing him to become PresidentEvil.]]
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: [[spoiler: Wyman kills Curtis by poisoning him in such a way it looks like he had a smoking-induced heart attack.]]
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* WhoKilledJFK: The Shadow Company, of course. Though it turns out that was just stage one of the plan -- they were also supposed to blow up Air Force One while Johnson was onboard being sworn in, then leave evidence that pointed towards Cuban agents, in order to trigger WorldWarIII. Fortunately, Cade hunted down and killed the team responsible, before this could happen.
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* WhoKilledJFK: WhoShotJFK: The Shadow Company, of course. Though it turns out that was just stage one of the plan -- they were also supposed to blow up Air Force One while Johnson was onboard being sworn in, then leave evidence that pointed towards Cuban agents, in order to trigger WorldWarIII. Fortunately, Cade hunted down and killed the team responsible, before this could happen.
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** Proctor is pretty personable guy. He's also a fairly high ranked Shadow Company operative determined to end the world.
* ArchEnemy: Since Cade's enemies tend not to live long after meeting him, Konrad (who always escapes) and the Boogeyman (who keeps coming back) deserve mention for repeat encounters. As a whole, however, the Shadow Company probably counts.
* BatmanColdOpen: All the main books open with one:
** ''Blood Oath'': A special ops team witnesses Cade killing a group of werewolves and taking back an artifact from them.
** ''The President's Vampire'': A flashback to when Cade killed Bin Laden.
** ''Red, White, and Blood'': A flashback to one of Cade's previous encounters with the Boogeyman.
* BatmanColdOpen: All the main books open with one:
** ''Blood Oath'': A special ops team witnesses Cade killing a group of werewolves and taking back an artifact from them.
** ''The President's Vampire'': A flashback to when Cade killed Bin Laden.
** ''Red, White, and Blood'': A flashback to one of Cade's previous encounters with the Boogeyman.
* CastingAShadow: The Shadowmen, the result of a previous Shadow Company experiment, who gained the ability to travel in shadows and use them to attack people with their fears.
* ChekhovsGun: At the beginning of the first book, Cade recovers an artifact from a group of Slavic werewolves. At the climax of the book, [[spoiler: it turns out to be the petrified hand of John the Baptist, which Cade uses to rekill the last ''Unmanschensoldaten''.]]
* ChekhovsGun: At the beginning of the first book, Cade recovers an artifact from a group of Slavic werewolves. At the climax of the book, [[spoiler: it turns out to be the petrified hand of John the Baptist, which Cade uses to rekill the last ''Unmanschensoldaten''.]]
* DatingCatwoman: Cade has an on/off relationship with Tania, who unlike him is a FullyEmbracedFiend.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Proctor works for the Shadow Company, but is also a loving husband and father who hates that he doesn't get to spend as much time with his family as he'd like.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Proctor works for the Shadow Company, but is also a loving husband and father who hates that he doesn't get to spend as much time with his family as he'd like.
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* FrankensteinsMonster: The original one was destroyed by TorchesAndPitchforks crowd, but original Frankenstein, Johann Konrad, still creates them, calling them ''Unmanschensoldaten''.
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* FrankensteinsMonster: The original one was destroyed by a TorchesAndPitchforks crowd, but original Frankenstein, Johann Konrad, still creates them, calling them ''Unmanschensoldaten''.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: How Cade defeats the Shadowmen: [[spoiler: Since their abilities work by moving between this world and the Other Side, but keeping them invisible to whatever lives there, he grabs them in mid-transit, leaving them halfway between worlds and vulnerable. One is driven insane, while the other just disappears, apparently devoured.]]
* MiddleManagementMook: Proctor is the highest ranked Shadow Company we've seen so far, but is still just a mouthpiece for the higher ups.
** Ultimately subverted in ''Red, White, and Blood'', which specifically states them to be Democrats.
* PiggybackingOnHitler: Konrad worked for the Nazis during WWII. Then the Soviets during the Cold War. And now the Shadow Company and the jihadis in the present. All so someone will support and finance his work.
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* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Archer/Andrew, from the second book. Naturally, they're a front for the Shadow Company.
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* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Archer/Andrew, Archer/Andrews, from the second book. Naturally, they're a front for the Shadow Company.
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* TheVirus: The main threat in the second book is a form of weaponized [[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth Marsh family]] DNA, which near instantly transforms anyone exposed to it into a Snakehead.
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* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Cade spends the whole first book calling Zac "Barrows". Come the [[spoiler: ''Unmanschensoldaten'' attack on the White House]] at the climax, he actually calls him "Zac".
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* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: At the climax of the first book, [[spoiler: four ''Unmanschensoldaten'' are unleashed on the White House.]]
* AndIMustScream: How Cade ultimately deals with the Boogeyman. [[spoiler: Since killing its host body will just let it reincarnate in another, he breaks every bone in said body, then has him put on life support, with plans to keep the body too broken for it to ever fully heal, yet unable to escape.]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: Cade will fight with anything he can get his hands on. The best example is at the climax of the first book, where he hits an ''Unmanschensoldaten'' with [[spoiler: ''the Resolute Desk'']].
* LaserGuidedKarma: Helen is so desperate for Konrad's elixer that it's perfectly ironic that [[spoiler: he gives her a flawed version that slows her metabolism down to "geological" levels, leaving her mostly paralyzed.]]
** How Cade takes down Graves: [[spoiler: the Colonel's permanent Presidential pardon is in his given name, so after learning his true one, Zac puts it on the kind of extradition order Graves' private security company always uses, and has the President sign off on it, giving Cade free range to kill him.]]
** How Cade takes down Graves: [[spoiler: the Colonel's permanent Presidential pardon is in his given name, so after learning his true one, Zac puts it on the kind of extradition order Graves' private security company always uses, and has the President sign off on it, giving Cade free range to kill him.]]
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Archer/Andrew, from the second book. Naturally, they're a front for the Shadow Company.
* RevengeByProxy: In ''Red, White, and Blood'', the Boogeyman decides to go after Curtis as payback on Cade for always ruining its fun in the past. [[spoiler: And then it goes after Curtis' family instead, in order to make them ''both'' suffer.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Cade assaults the Shadow Company's LA base to rescue Zac, Reyes abandons his partners and flees out the building's rear.
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* {{Squick}}: What happens to Nikki's pimp. [[spoiler:He's infected with fast-working virus that turns all of his body into a material to built its own body, this being creepy fungi-like thing with plant-like tendrils and reptilian, scaled skin. Before this happens, he has giant warts all over his body - and the author describes them on ''eyelids'' that blow to make way for above thing.]]
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* WhoKilledJFK: The Shadow Company, of course. Though it turns out that was just stage one of the plan -- they were also supposed to blow up Air Force One while Johnson was onboard being sworn in, then leave evidence that pointed towards Cuban agents, in order to trigger WorldWarIII. Fortunately, Cade hunted down and killed the team responsible, before this could happen.
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* AncientConspiracy: The Order, a cult that dates back to least the founding of the US, and which aims at its destruction. After nearly being wiped out by President Grant and Cade in retaliation for their assassination of Lincoln, the survivors underwent a split, with one faction infiltrating the government and evolving into the Shadow Company, while the other created the Boogeyman and evolved into a ReligionOfEvil built around it.
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* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: It's [[spoiler:Konrad]] who kills [[spoiler:Helen]]
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The basis for Shelley's [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Doctor Frankenstein]] was apparently Johann Konrad.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy:
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Conrad_Dippel Johann Konrad]], the real-life basis for Shelley's [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Doctor
** Marie Laveau,the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, bound Cade to the service of the President, by order to Andrew Johnson.
** Elliot Ness was
** Osama Bin Laden was an agent of the Shadow Company, who Cade killed in Tora Bora (his survival and later "real" death both being faked by the government for political reasons). Oh, and he was an early test subject of the Snakehead virus, so he wasn't human anymore when Cade killed him.
** John Wilkes Booth was a patsy of the Order, who faked his own death in 1865 and went into hiding, until the guilt caught up with him decades later and he started drunkenly announcing the truth. So Cade hunted him down and killed him.
** JackTheRipper was a "starchild" created by Aleister Crowley, in the same sort of ritual that later created the Boogeyman.
** Every SerialKiller in the 20th century has either been a host of the Boogeyman, or a member of the cult worshiping it.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: At the end of the second book, [[spoiler: after the Chief of Staff is exposed as a Shadow Company mole, he intentionally overdoses on pills rather than face Cade.]]
* BigBad: The ShadowCompany, which was once government organization, but now works for itself.Company is the main threat throughout the series, though each main book has its own main antagonists.
** ''Blood Oath'': Konrad
** ''The President's Vampire'': Colonel Graves
** ''Red, White, and Blood'': Helen and the Boogeyman
* BigBad: The Shadow
** ''Blood Oath'': Konrad
** ''The President's Vampire'': Colonel Graves
** ''Red, White, and Blood'': Helen and the Boogeyman
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* PresidentEvil: The plot of ''Red, White and Blood'' revolves around the Shadow Company trying to kill President Curtis and replace him with one of their pawns.
* TheDarkArts: The necromancy and the alchemy that created the Elixir of Life both count, mostly due to the fact that they need HumanResources to work.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Wyman ]] works for the Shadow Company.
* ThePresidentsDaughter: Apparently, Zach spent a pleasant night with her, which he suspects to be the reason why his career was derailed.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Johann, usually composed, has a brief moment when, watching the work of his HumanResources extractor, muses in his head, "and to think they called me mad!"
* TheDarkArts: The necromancy and the alchemy that created the Elixir of Life both count, mostly due to the fact that they need HumanResources to work.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Wyman ]] works for the Shadow Company.
* ThePresidentsDaughter: Apparently, Zach spent a pleasant night with her, which he suspects to be the reason why his career was derailed.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Johann, usually composed, has a brief moment when, watching the work of his HumanResources extractor, muses in his head, "and to think they called me mad!"
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* PresidentEvil: The plot Shadow Company would ''love'' to install one of these. By the time of ''Red, White White, and Blood'' revolves around Blood'', they've decided to try and recruit Curtis' running opponent, Governor Seagrave, who seems likely to win. [[spoiler: Then at the Shadow Company trying to kill President Curtis and replace him end of the book, Vice-President Wyman, who has an alliance with one of their pawns.
* TheDarkArts: The necromancy andthe alchemy that created the Elixir of Life both count, mostly due to the fact that they need HumanResources to work.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Wyman ]] works for the Shadow Company.
* ThePresidentsDaughter: Apparently, Zach spent a pleasant night with her, which he suspects to be the reason why his career was derailed.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Johann, usually composed, has a brief moment when, watching the work of his HumanResources extractor, muses in his head, "and to think they called me mad!"Company, kills Curtis, thus taking over.]]
* TheDarkArts: The necromancy and
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Wyman ]] works for the Shadow Company.
* ThePresidentsDaughter: Apparently, Zach spent a pleasant night with her, which he suspects to be the reason why his career was derailed.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Johann, usually composed, has a brief moment when, watching the work of his HumanResources extractor, muses in his head, "and to think they called me mad!"
* TheDarkArts: The necromancy and the alchemy that created the Elixir of Life both count, mostly due to the fact that they need HumanResources to work.
* TheMole: The Shadow Company has several in the government, including the White House Chief of Staff and Vice-President Wyman.
* ThePresidentsDaughter: Apparently, Zach spent a pleasant night with her, which he suspects to be the reason why his career was derailed.
* TheStarscream: Helen plots with Konrad behind her superiors' backs, and by the time of ''Red, White, and Blood'' has gone completely rogue.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Johann, usually composed, has a brief moment when, watching the work of his HumanResources extractor, muses in his head, "and to think they called me mad!"
* TheMole: The Shadow Company has several in the government, including the White House Chief of Staff and Vice-President Wyman.
* ThePresidentsDaughter: Apparently, Zach spent a pleasant night with her, which he suspects to be the reason why his career was derailed.
* TheStarscream: Helen plots with Konrad behind her superiors' backs, and by the time of ''Red, White, and Blood'' has gone completely rogue.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Johann, usually composed, has a brief moment when, watching the work of his HumanResources extractor, muses in his head, "and to think they called me mad!"
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* YourDaysAreNumbered: The reason Griff is retiring in the first book is because he has cancer. [[spoiler: And then he's killed by an ''Unmanschensoldaten'' at the book's climax.]]
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* OddCouple: One's an ambitious White House politician. The other is immortal vampire.
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* OddCouple: One's an ambitious White House politician. The politician and a smooth talker, the other is immortal vampire.immortal, antisocial vampire.
* OldSoldier: Griff has been Cade's partner for over three decades and there's little that would surprise him anymore. Even before this assignment, he was FBI agent, so he has a lot of experience to draw from.
* OldSoldier: Griff has been Cade's partner for over three decades and there's little that would surprise him anymore. Even before this assignment, he was FBI agent, so he has a lot of experience to draw from.
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* BerserkButton: Whenever Johann Konrad appears in vicinity, Cade's RedOniBlueOni relationship with Zach gets instantly reversed and he's ''inches'' short from killing the man on spot.
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* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Curtis is definitely President Personable: kind, intelligent, worried about the dangers lurking out there and terrified of the supernatural dangers that lurk outside. He also doesn't seem to mind that Zach slept with his daughter.
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* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: OurPresidentsAreDifferent:
** Curtis is definitely President Personable: kind, intelligent, worried about the dangers lurking out there and terrified of the supernatural dangers that lurk outside. He also doesn't seem to mind that Zach slept with hisdaughter.daughter.
** In Cade's flashbacks, Andrew Johnson comes across as President Jerkass who's alway drunk or near-drunk, although this might be because Johnson's trying to cover his fear or repulsion of vampires.
** Curtis is definitely President Personable: kind, intelligent, worried about the dangers lurking out there and terrified of the supernatural dangers that lurk outside. He also doesn't seem to mind that Zach slept with his
** In Cade's flashbacks, Andrew Johnson comes across as President Jerkass who's alway drunk or near-drunk, although this might be because Johnson's trying to cover his fear or repulsion of vampires.
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* PedestrianCrushesCar: Cade stops Company's car by standing in front of it and then punching it, sending it on the wall and crushing beyond saving. It's a small miracle that its passengers survived this.
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* RunningGag: Cade chastising someone for taking Lord's name in vain.
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* HeroicSelfDepreciation: Cade has this in spades and it's up to Tania and Zach to pull him out of it. Long story short, he'd devout Calvinist convinced he's a monster who can't redeem itself and can only try to do good until finally something beats him and he'll burn in Hell.
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* HeroicSelfDepreciation: HeroicSelfDeprecation: Cade has this in spades and it's up to Tania and Zach to pull him out of it. Long story short, he'd devout Calvinist convinced he's a monster who can't redeem itself and can only try to do good until finally something beats him and he'll burn in Hell.
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* NighInvulnerability: Pretty much nothing apart from nuclear blast or direct sunlight could kill Cade. When he meets head-on with a car, he looks as if nothing happen, and the car is pretty much impossible to use anymore.
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* RefusalOfTheCall: In the beginning, Zach tries to weasel out of his new assignment, going as far as to ask the President directly, but he's sternly told that it's a job for life and he just plain can't refuse. After a while, however, when Cade suggests Zach better go home, [[CharacterDevelopment he refuses, to his own surprise]].
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The basis for Shelley's [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Doctor Frankenstein]] was apparently Johann Conrad.
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The basis for Shelley's [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Doctor Frankenstein]] was apparently Johann Conrad.Konrad.
* CameBackWrong: ''Unmanschensoldaten'' are built from dead soldiers brought back to life to do their creators' bidding, and they're not aware of it - when we see a POV of one, he has no idea what's going on and wonders if he's in Hell.
* ChekhovsSkill: An offhand mention about Zach being a car thief once comes back when he has to steal a car to get himself and Cade to safety. When rigging the cables to start the vehicle, he even muses angrily that out of all skills he has ever acquired, he'd much rather it wasn't this one that proves the most useful.
* {{Curse}}: Cade considers his vampirism to be this, a curse that fates him to burn in Hell when he'll die.
* ChekhovsSkill: An offhand mention about Zach being a car thief once comes back when he has to steal a car to get himself and Cade to safety. When rigging the cables to start the vehicle, he even muses angrily that out of all skills he has ever acquired, he'd much rather it wasn't this one that proves the most useful.
* {{Curse}}: Cade considers his vampirism to be this, a curse that fates him to burn in Hell when he'll die.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Cade, despite being vampire, killer, and creature of the night, is one of the good guys, even though sometimes he doesn't believe it.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Wyman can't understand why Griff, who's dying of cancer, won't use the Elixir of Life to save himself. When Griffin tells him that there are some values you wouldn't sell for any price, he's even more baffled.
* FrankensteinsMonster: The original one was destroyed by TorchesAndPitchforks crowd, but original Frankenstein, Johann Konrad, still creates them, calling them ''Unmanschensoldaten''.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Wyman can't understand why Griff, who's dying of cancer, won't use the Elixir of Life to save himself. When Griffin tells him that there are some values you wouldn't sell for any price, he's even more baffled.
* FrankensteinsMonster: The original one was destroyed by TorchesAndPitchforks crowd, but original Frankenstein, Johann Konrad, still creates them, calling them ''Unmanschensoldaten''.
* GratuitousGerman: The Frankenstein monsters are called ''Unmanschensoldaten'', which is German for "Inhuman Soldiers".
* HeroicSelfDepreciation: Cade has this in spades and it's up to Tania and Zach to pull him out of it. Long story short, he'd devout Calvinist convinced he's a monster who can't redeem itself and can only try to do good until finally something beats him and he'll burn in Hell.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Shadow Company and, if you [[BilingualBonus know German]], ''Unmanschensoldaten''.
* TheDarkArts: The necromancy and the alchemy that created the Elixir of Life both count, mostly due to the fact that they need HumanResources to work.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Wyman ]] works for the Shadow Company.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Wyman ]] works for the Shadow Company.
* TheyCalledMeMad: Johann, usually composed, has a brief moment when, watching the work of his HumanResources extractor, muses in his head, "and to think they called me mad!"
* RescueSex: A villainous version. When Konrad "saves" Helen by agreeing to give her the Elixir of Life, she immediately has sex with him, to his considerable amusement.
-->'''Konrad''': It would be enough to say 'thank you'.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Griff has been Cade's partner for over three decades and there's little that would surprise him anymore. Even before this assignment, he was FBI agent, so he has a lot of experience to draw from.
-->'''Konrad''': It would be enough to say 'thank you'.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Griff has been Cade's partner for over three decades and there's little that would surprise him anymore. Even before this assignment, he was FBI agent, so he has a lot of experience to draw from.
* {{Squick}}: What happens to Nikki's pimp. [[spoiler:He's infected with fast-working virus that turns all of his body into a material to built its own body, this being creepy fungi-like thing with plant-like tendrils and reptilian, scaled skin. Before this happens, he has giant warts all over his body - and the author describes them on ''eyelids'' that blow to make way for above thing.]]
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* VillainExitStageLeft: Even though Cade had Konrad basically by the collar, the mad doctor still manages to escape by [[spoiler:pointing out that the president's in danger and invoking Cade's blood oath]].
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* AfflablyEvil: Helen comes of as pleasant and helpful woman most of the time, while in fact, she's very probably a psychopath.
* Animorphism: Cade and US government believe this vampire myth to be false, but Tania can turn into a bird and it's implied that vampires that feed on human blood can do this.
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* AfflablyEvil: AdmiringTheAbomination: Konrad is very interested in his virus' creepy and {{Squick}}y effects.
* AffablyEvil: Helen comes of as pleasant and helpful woman most of the time, while in fact, she's very probably a psychopath.
*Animorphism: {{Animorphism}}: Cade and US government believe this vampire myth to be false, but Tania can turn into a bird and it's implied that all vampires that feed on human blood can do this.
* AffablyEvil: Helen comes of as pleasant and helpful woman most of the time, while in fact, she's very probably a psychopath.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Both Cade and Konrad had taken part in many major events of last century, including World Wars and Nigerian civil war.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The basis for Shelley's [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Doctor Frankenstein]] was apparently Johann Conrad.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The basis for Shelley's [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} Doctor Frankenstein]] was apparently Johann Conrad.
* CursedWithAwesome: Both Tania and Zach lampshade the fact that for all of Cade's sulking about being a vampire, being a nigh-immortal, nearly indestructible, super-strong and fast predator is actually pretty cool.
* CuteAndPsycho: Tania is a semi-heroic example, being pretty woman and calling humans 'livestock'. Helen, on the other hand, is villainous example, acting AffablyEvil and even friendly most of the time, but inside, being pretty much empty of anything else than unconditional self-interest.
* CuteAndPsycho: Tania is a semi-heroic example, being pretty woman and calling humans 'livestock'. Helen, on the other hand, is villainous example, acting AffablyEvil and even friendly most of the time, but inside, being pretty much empty of anything else than unconditional self-interest.
* {{Ghostapo}}: Hitler wanted Konrad to create Frankenstein Monsters for him to use in combat, and create epidemics that would wipe out the British. Konrad was experimenting with the former, but refused to do the latter, on the ground that epidemic can easily turn against its master.
* HeroicBSOD: Cade mentions that he went through one after World War Two, when what he saw made him question whether the world is actually worth saving. He got out of this when he accidentally stumbled upon Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and realized that his HorrorHunger is similar to their alcohol addiction.
* HeroicBSOD: Cade mentions that he went through one after World War Two, when what he saw made him question whether the world is actually worth saving. He got out of this when he accidentally stumbled upon Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and realized that his HorrorHunger is similar to their alcohol addiction.
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* HumanResources: Konrad's clinic uses parts of human bodies acquired from unwilling subjects: skin in youth cream, bones for cosmetic surgery, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick soul for Elixir of Youth]]...
* HumanResources: Konrad's clinic uses parts of human bodies acquired from unwilling subjects: skin in youth cream, bones for cosmetic surgery, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick soul for Elixir of Youth]]...
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* MadDoctor: Both Zach and Helen consider Konrad to be this, although he himself believes he's perfectly sane and reasonable.
-->'''Zach''': The guy is more full of shit than a duck pond.
* MadDoctor: Both Zach and Helen consider Konrad to be this, although he himself believes he's perfectly sane and reasonable.
-->'''Zach''': The guy is more full of shit than a duck pond.
* NotSoDifferent: Konrad tries to pull this off on Cade, but Nathaniel reacts rather... [[UnstoppableRage angrily]].
* OddCouple: One's an ambitious White House politician. The other is immortal vampire.
* OddCouple: One's an ambitious White House politician. The other is immortal vampire.
* RedOniBlueOni: Usually, hot-blooded and easily irritated Zach is Red to calm Cade's Blue, but when Konrad is concerned, the roles reverse.
* TropaholicsAnonymous: Cade goes to meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, as he considers their problems to be similar to his and believes it to help him keep his humanity. He claims that it really helps him, even though he never speaks during the meetings.
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* VegetarianVampire: Bar his first burst of HorrorHunger after his creation, Cade refuses even voluntarily donated or blood-bank-derived human blood, believing that if he gives in, he won't be able to stop. He drinks animal blood instead. Tania considers this squeamishness.
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* ActionSurvivor: Zach used to be a low-level politician, so his participation in any action generally looks like this.
* AfflablyEvil: Helen comes of as pleasant and helpful woman most of the time, while in fact, she's very probably a psychopath.
* Animorphism: Cade and US government believe this vampire myth to be false, but Tania can turn into a bird and it's implied that vampires that feed on human blood can do this.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: It's [[spoiler:Konrad]] who kills [[spoiler:Helen]]
* BigBad: The Shadow Company, which was once government organization, but now works for itself.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Nathaniel tries to be one, drinking only animals' blood and serving the US government in fight against creature to whom he's technically closer than to humans, although his personality rather defies the "friendly" part.
* HeroicWillpower: When Zach tests whether Cade would do his every order and drink human blood, that's the only thing that stops Cade from giving in.
* HorrorHunger: Cade's thirst for human blood is so strong that at one point he actually runs away from the pool of spilled blood despite the spiller being the person he was supposed to kill - for fear that he would lose control.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Helen]] dies from the injection of Elixir of Youth [[spoiler:she craved so much.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Curtis dies in ''Red, White and Blood'']]
* NoPartyGiven: It's never said which party Zach and Curtis are from.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Curtis is definitely President Personable: kind, intelligent, worried about the dangers lurking out there and terrified of the supernatural dangers that lurk outside. He also doesn't seem to mind that Zach slept with his daughter.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires are functionally immortal, although they have to drink blood to stay young, and drinking human blood gives them additional powers compared to feeding on animals. Sun hurts them, and during the day they are weaker. They have supernatural senses, strength and speed and have to sleep once in about a week. Garlic and silver do nothing, although religious symbols and places hurt.
* PresidentEvil: The plot of ''Red, White and Blood'' revolves around the Shadow Company trying to kill President Curtis and replace him with one of their pawns.
* ThePresidentsDaughter: Apparently, Zach spent a pleasant night with her, which he suspects to be the reason why his career was derailed.
* StalkerWithACrush: Tania's mild obsession with Cade looks like this sometimes, as she's following him everywhere even despite him having rather off-putting character and not really being interested.
* VampiresAreSexGods: Played with. Zach notes that Cade, despite looking good, has something that makes humans around him terrified of him, while Tania, vampiress herself, considers him to be sexy. Cade himself states this:
-->'''Cade''': Humans are our food. Do you want to have sex with a cow?
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* AfflablyEvil: Helen comes of as pleasant and helpful woman most of the time, while in fact, she's very probably a psychopath.
* Animorphism: Cade and US government believe this vampire myth to be false, but Tania can turn into a bird and it's implied that vampires that feed on human blood can do this.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: It's [[spoiler:Konrad]] who kills [[spoiler:Helen]]
* BigBad: The Shadow Company, which was once government organization, but now works for itself.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Nathaniel tries to be one, drinking only animals' blood and serving the US government in fight against creature to whom he's technically closer than to humans, although his personality rather defies the "friendly" part.
* HeroicWillpower: When Zach tests whether Cade would do his every order and drink human blood, that's the only thing that stops Cade from giving in.
* HorrorHunger: Cade's thirst for human blood is so strong that at one point he actually runs away from the pool of spilled blood despite the spiller being the person he was supposed to kill - for fear that he would lose control.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Helen]] dies from the injection of Elixir of Youth [[spoiler:she craved so much.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Curtis dies in ''Red, White and Blood'']]
* NoPartyGiven: It's never said which party Zach and Curtis are from.
* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Curtis is definitely President Personable: kind, intelligent, worried about the dangers lurking out there and terrified of the supernatural dangers that lurk outside. He also doesn't seem to mind that Zach slept with his daughter.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires are functionally immortal, although they have to drink blood to stay young, and drinking human blood gives them additional powers compared to feeding on animals. Sun hurts them, and during the day they are weaker. They have supernatural senses, strength and speed and have to sleep once in about a week. Garlic and silver do nothing, although religious symbols and places hurt.
* PresidentEvil: The plot of ''Red, White and Blood'' revolves around the Shadow Company trying to kill President Curtis and replace him with one of their pawns.
* ThePresidentsDaughter: Apparently, Zach spent a pleasant night with her, which he suspects to be the reason why his career was derailed.
* StalkerWithACrush: Tania's mild obsession with Cade looks like this sometimes, as she's following him everywhere even despite him having rather off-putting character and not really being interested.
* VampiresAreSexGods: Played with. Zach notes that Cade, despite looking good, has something that makes humans around him terrified of him, while Tania, vampiress herself, considers him to be sexy. Cade himself states this:
-->'''Cade''': Humans are our food. Do you want to have sex with a cow?
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''President's Vampire'', also known as ''Blood Oath'' after the first book, is a series of novels by Christopher Farnsworth mixing supernatural horror and spy fiction.
[[ActionSurvivor Zachary Griffin]] is a young White House bureaucrat and his party's boy wonder, hoping to achieve much in politics. However, his career comes to a screeching halt when, after spending a night with president's daughter, he's reassigned to be, for the rest of his life, a liaison officer between the White House and... a vampire.
As it turns out, there is an entire world of supernatural creatures that, for most part, consider humans to be tasty and healthy meal, and many people who want to use black magic against the general public. Between them and unknowing civilians stands [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Nathaniel Cade]], a vampire bound by a blood oath to serve the President of the United States, whoever he might be. He's been doing this job for over fourteen decades and gone through dozens of partners - the last of which is supposed to be Zach.
Almost immediately after their first meeting, the duo is sent to save the America from Muslim terrorists who want to use Frankenstein monsters to overthrow the US, the ''original'' Doctor Frankenstein and the secret semi-government agency who had its own plans, and that's only Zach's first day on the job...
So far, there are four books in the series:
# ''Blood Oath''
# ''The President's Vampire''
# ''Red, White and Blood''
# ''The Burning Man''
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''President's Vampire'', also known as ''Blood Oath'' after the first book, is a series of novels by Christopher Farnsworth mixing supernatural horror and spy fiction.
[[ActionSurvivor Zachary Griffin]] is a young White House bureaucrat and his party's boy wonder, hoping to achieve much in politics. However, his career comes to a screeching halt when, after spending a night with president's daughter, he's reassigned to be, for the rest of his life, a liaison officer between the White House and... a vampire.
As it turns out, there is an entire world of supernatural creatures that, for most part, consider humans to be tasty and healthy meal, and many people who want to use black magic against the general public. Between them and unknowing civilians stands [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Nathaniel Cade]], a vampire bound by a blood oath to serve the President of the United States, whoever he might be. He's been doing this job for over fourteen decades and gone through dozens of partners - the last of which is supposed to be Zach.
Almost immediately after their first meeting, the duo is sent to save the America from Muslim terrorists who want to use Frankenstein monsters to overthrow the US, the ''original'' Doctor Frankenstein and the secret semi-government agency who had its own plans, and that's only Zach's first day on the job...
So far, there are four books in the series:
# ''Blood Oath''
# ''The President's Vampire''
# ''Red, White and Blood''
# ''The Burning Man''
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!Tropes in this series are:
