
Where did you get the idea for Blood World and how did that idea change as you wrote it? My other main character, Ellie DeBatista, is a young policewoman who goes undercover because she’s the only one who has a possible lead on Pandora. Only my guy, Sebastian, has the best blood on the market: Pandora, and it’s in high demand. Their blood is sold to the rich and powerful.

When my book opens up, we’re in Los Angeles, where carriers are being abducted in record numbers from their homes, schools, on the streets, and imprisoned in these secretive blood farms. When scientists give non-carriers a transfusion of carrier blood mixed with a certain drug cocktail, the blood not only cures disease, it reverses aging, smooths out your skin, and gives you a ton of energy and the sex life of your dreams. To begin, what is Blood World about, and what kind of world is it set in?īlood World is a crime novel / thriller set, maybe, five years from now, where scientists have discovered that certain people called “carriers” have a gene keeps their blood - and body - in optimum condition, whether that be fighting off disease or keeping them looking young and healthy. But in the following email interview, he explains that while this does take place in the not-so-distant future, and does get bloody, it’s actually more grounded and plausible than you might think. After all, it has people doing weird things with blood. For the Soul Collectors are the monsters from your worst nightmares.You’d be forgiven for thinking that Chris Mooney’s new novel Blood World ( hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) is a vampire story or maybe a sci-fi thriller. and, as the body count rises, one that will bring her into great personal danger and leave her in fear of losing her mind, if not her soul. Where has Charlie Rizzo been held all these years? Who are The Twelve who have been executing this gruesome torture? And why are the FBI running scared in the face of this particular, chilling episode? Darby is facing the toughest case of her career. Within minutes, a group of men disguised as SWAT officers bursts in and releases deadly Sarin gas, killing the Rizzo family outright and leaving Darby herself barely alive.


Charlie Rizzo has his family at gunpoint and when Darby arrives to defuse the scene, she finds him horrifically mutilated, with a mask of human skin sewn in place over his own face. Today, the missing child is back from the dead and holding his family hostage. Ten years ago CSI Darby McCormick investigated a sinister child abduction case.
