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Killers of the Dawn
Author: Darren Shan

"He wasn't like this when I knew him."

"Yes, he was," Mr Crepsley disagreed. "He just had not grown into his true evil self yet. He was born bad, as certain people are. Humans will tell you that everybody can be helped, that everyone has a choice. In my experience, that is not so. Good people can sometimes choose badness, but bad people cannot choose good."

"I don't believe that," Harkat said softly. "I think good and evil exist...in all of us. We might be born leaning more towards...one than the other, but the choice is there. It has to be. Otherwise, we're mere...puppets of fate."

The police believe that Darren is behind all the murders. This causes a large-scale chase, forcing Darren to flee. When he is finally captured together with his companions, they have to come up with an escape plan.

Because of all this, they have lost a lot of valuable time and more and more innocent human victims are being killed.

Meanwhile, the rulers of the Vampanese have outwitted them and the end seems nowhere in sight....

Like "Allies of the Night" this book was also very repetitive. The plot ended very abruptly, as in the other parts of the series.

Trigger warnings:
Death, violence, murder, grief, blood