Tree Jumpers in Da Hood

[lumberjim]

I'm reading a book called 'the passage' right now. It's about vampires, but the story explains how they came to be. It's set in the near future, and what happens is that the government stumbles upon a virus that cures all known diseases, but also turns it's victims into glow in the dark vampires.

The project that follows the discovery is a super secret, off the books scientific trial, in which they infect death row inmates with varying strains of the virus and try to fine tune it to get the right mix of... Didn't die from the virus and useful to the army super soldiers....

For whatever reason, the caretakers they hire / abduct to watch over and feed the test subjects are all castrated pedophiles.

Inevitably, the vampires escape containment and the virus is unleashed. And so the story goes on like that.... I'm at a point just after this happens. But the people take to calling the monsters 'Jumpers' because they travel in the tree tops and jump on their victims when they attack.

So, 'Tree Jumpers' kind of ties in. Have you read this book, foot? Cuz I can't figure out why else you refer to those types this way.