Jake is 200 years old and fond of scotch and prostitutes. He is, in other words, both more than human and all too human. Jake is also a werewolf, the last of his kind; the rest have been hunted down by a posse of fanatics. Duncan's take on the werewolf tale is rich and black and refreshingly novel: Jake is an aging, jaded sybarite who battles boredom and existential despair as well as werewolf hunters and vampires. 7/12