Interesting novella, if somewhat flawed. I like the idea - that modern day political upheaval in Eastern Europe has resulted in Dracula being dispossessed of his lands, so he ends up in Mexico City, which has the twin advantages of being highly populated (lots of food!) and possessed of a useless, corrupt legal system... both great advantages to a predator. And as with the original text, a lot of this is filtered through a helpless lawyer, initially employed to procure accommodation for the traveler. 

I found it pretty compelling up until the last quarter or so, I think, where it all falls slightly apart for me. I'm not sure why, exactly, except that I found the ending less convincing than the rest of it. Yet thinking of it now, as I write this short review, I wonder if I haven't misinterpreted. The destruction of the lawyer's family - the corruption of it, rather - is simply playing on that existing theme, except this time it's domestic rather than political corruption, as the weaknesses of a grieving parent cause a surviving child to be given up to horror rather than sheltered from it. If so, it's cleverly done, but I think I would have liked to see the political parallels played up a little more in order to really underline the connection... because that domestic corruption could have happened anywhere, so I wonder if the book really utilised its setting to the fullest extent.