The Western Territories, 1880. For four years, Civil War veteran and former U.S. Cavalry Captain Jonas P. Hollister has been rotting in a prison cell at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His crime: lying about the loss of eleven soldiers under his command. who he claims were slaughtered by a band of nonhuman, blood-drinking demons. But now a famous visitor, the detective Allan Pinkerton, has arrived with an order for Hollister's release.

The brutal murder of a group of Colorado miners in a fashion frighteningly similar to the deaths of Hollister's men has leant new credence to his wild tale. And suddenly Jonas Hollister finds himself on a quest both dangerous and dark-joining forces with Pinkerton, the gunsmith Oliver Winchester, an ex-fellow prisoner, a woman of mystery, and a foreigner named Abraham Van Helsing, who knows many things about the monsters of the night-and riding hell for leather toward an epic confrontation. with the undead. "The history of the Old West written in blood and laced with dark humor, all set against a backdrop of ancient evil and a struggle for survival.You're in for the ride of your life." -James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Colony " Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's vivid and high-velocity, too. I couldn't put it down.

" - T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times bestselling author of The Jaguar and The Border Lords " Blood Riders by Michael P. Spradlin is a thrill ride of a novel! I was turning the pages so fast I barely had time to catch my breath. Spradlin's bold, fast-paced and engaging style makes Blood Riders a new classic!" - Teresa Medeiros, New York Times bestselling author of Goodnight Tweetheart.