I just finished The Strain by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo Del Toro. It's a vampire novel. Del Toro is also a movie director who is probably best known for the Hellboy franchise, Pan's Labyrinth, Blade II and Mimic. Chuck Hogan wrote Prince of Thieves.

So I had high hopes for this book. It was middling. It really was like reading a very thinly hidden rewrite of Blade II, right down to the description of the vampires, the hidden vampire council, and even the embittered vampire hunter.

This is the first in a trilogy but it doesn't really need to be a trilogy. It's worthwhile as paperback, but not fullprice hardcover.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.