Blood Riders

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