I don't know if it's because I'm rereading a favorite series, Necroscope by Brian Lumley.
Necroscope (1988)
From the back cover: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES Except to Harry Keogh, the Necroscope. And what they tell him is horrifying. Long buried in the mountains of Romania, bound by earth and silver, a master vampire lies trapped between death and life. Thibor Ferenczy hungers for freedom and plots an unearthly revenge. The vampire's human tool is Boris Dragosani, an agent for a supersecret Russian spy agency. Dragosani is eager to plumb the depthless evil of the vampire's mind. Ferenczy teaches Dragosani the terrible skills of the necromancer, giving him the ability to rip secrets from the minds and bodies of the dead. Dragosani's hidden goal is to rule the world, forging an iron grip with knowledge raped from the dead. His only opponent: Harry Keogh, champion of the living and the dead. To protect Harry, the dead will do anything -- even rise from the graves!
So he just keeps leveling up and becoming more and more powerful and as he becomes more and more powerful, ooh, the taint of the vampires become more and more powerful that he has to combat and fight. It's so much fun.
unfortunately it was also not entirely to my taste and that I think is the fact that it really read like a classic Macho masculine spy Thriller which just isn't something I normally read
these were hugely popular books I believe the series started in like the mid 80s and they're among the few Works in vampire fiction that I really do like I remember enjoying reading these very fondly back in the day
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