Blood Riders - Softcover

Spradlin, Michael P.

3.75

429 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062023098 ISBN 13: 9780062023094

Publisher: Harper Voyager, 2012

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“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

Already a New York Times bestselling author for his satiric, gore-soaked “songbooks” (It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Zombies; Every Zombie Eats Somebody Sometime), author Michael P. Spradlin now dons a different hat and gallops hell for leather into a darker, wilder West. Blood Riders is the story of Civil War veteran Jonas R. Hollister, who’s recruited by the U.S. government to hunt down and destroy an ancient tribe of vampires that is terrorizing the frontier territories. An ingenious mash-up of western and dark fantasy—with an intriguing touch of American steampunk weaponry thrown in for good measure—Spradlin’s Blood Riders has Hollister joining up with real-life historical figures Samuel Colt and Alan Pinkerton and one of horror literature’s most famous monster hunters (Abraham Van Helsing from Bram Stoker’s Dracula) to rid the West of the undead scourge once and for all.

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Review:

“Strap on your six-shooter and saddle your horse, you’re in for the ride of your life.” (James Rollins, NYT 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 Best Selling 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 Medieros, New York Times bestselling author of GOODNIGHT TWEETHEART)

” The final showdown convincingly resolves all the plot threads and provides fans of the vampire western genre a delightful read.” (Publishers Weekly)

From the Back Cover:

The Western Territories, 1880. For four years,Civil War veteran and former U.S. Cavalry CaptainJonas 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 bandof 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.

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