Someone wants to kill all the vampires. And perhaps the perfect weapon has already been found. The strangest crime scene in history? Eat. The guy eaten by a sentient wall? Yes. Every shadowy government agency in existence is trying to hide it? Yes. But is it murder? Nick Tanaka, a vampire and NYPD homicide detective, stumbles into a political minefield when their new Midnight, a female rookie fresh out of the police academy, dies in a heavily guarded vault. Nick's boss, Morley, wants answers, but no one wants the NYPD involved in the case. As a favor to Morley, Nick agrees to help and turns to his contacts in military-industrial circles to try to find answers. Instead He discovers a conspiracy led by a fanatical killer and his group of crazed "purity warriors" who want an all-out race war. To make matters worse, his hybrid girlfriend, Winter James, now finds herself in their crosshairs as well. "Tooth and Metal" is The fourth book in the gritty and romantic Vampire Detective Midnight series, set in a futuristic and dystopian New York inhabited by vampires, humans and psychics who are trying to rebuild their world after a devastating race war that nearly destroyed the entire planet. This series is a spin-off from the series “The Mystery of Quentin Black”, but can be read separately. Its main character, a vampire with a past and homicide detective, Naoko "Nick" Tanaka, has just transferred to the NYPD after a bad incident in Los Angeles, and this forces him to start a new life. Nick works as a "Midnight", or vampire, in the service of the human police department. When he arrives in New York, he wants to be left alone, to be allowed to work, surf and live out his immortal life in peace. Life and the inhabitants of New York clearly have other plans.