About the book: 2008 / Vampire$ is a close-knit group of professional vampire killers. They may say they're in it for the money, but their wild bravado and enduring friendships are as strong as any other hero-soldier epic. Restless, foul-mouthed, hard-drinking Jack Crow, clad in high-tech chain mail and armed with with a formidable crossbow - the leader of this gang. He is one of those people who shout obscenities at the Pope, and then (after a lot of drinking) sob on the pontiff's lap over the horrors he witnessed... In 1998, director John Carpenter made a film based on the novel.