Life means nothing to Ollie Hobart. He has no qualms about gunning down unarmed people in his pursuit of wealth—or leaving his fellow outlaws behind to pay the price for his crimes. He’s even willing to incite a war between the U.S. Cavalry and the Indian nations on the Western plains if it will line his pockets with gold. John Savage witnessed Hobart’s gang murder his parents—and he’s been hunting them down ever since. His quest for vengeance has consumed him, darkening his heart with every outlaw his bullets send to Hell. And his fury will not be abated until he puts the man responsible for his family’s deaths six feet under...

FROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER -- HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA. San Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant tales of the Whitechapel murders, a real-life monster terrorized America. His acts of butchery have proved him one of history's fiercest madmen. As an infant, Earle Leonard Nelson possessed the power to unsettle his elders. As a child he was unnaturally obsessed with the Bible; before he reached puberty, he had an insatiable, aberrant sex drive. By his teens, even Earle's own family had reason to fear him. But no one in the bone-chilling winter of 1926 could have predicted that his degeneracy would erupt in a sixteen-month frenzy of savage rape, barbaric murder, and unimaginable defilement -- deeds that would become the hallmarks of one of the most notorious fiends of the twentieth century, whose blood-lust would not be equaled until the likes of Henry Lee Lucas, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer. Drawing on the "gruesome, awesome, compelling reporting" (Ann Rule) that is his trademark, Harold Schechter takes a dark journey into the mind of an unrepentant sadist -- and brilliantly lays bare the myth of innocence that shrouded a bygone era.

Late night drinking leads to an old ghost story told among four friends, whose lives are in a rut. It's time for a change. To spice things up, they decide to go ghost hunting out in the deep nowhere of Colorado. Even the locals don’t want them going on that trail. Not tonight, at least. The friends go out, hunting for the impossible, mostly just to get out of the city and recharge their lives. But when the night falls, imaginary horror proves to be all too real. And under a full moon, their innocent camping trip turns into a night of terror.

When Marshall Grant Starbuck returns home after hunting cattle-rustlers, he finds his family murdered and begins a search for the killers with the help of Kate Beaumont, a woman whose husband was killed by the same gang

A towering novel filled with a new vision of the American frontier here is a magnificent saga of courage, told in blood: a gritty tale of the men and women who matched their bodies and souls against a land that would set them free or destroy them all.

John Savage continues his relentless pursuit of the outlaws who had murdered his family. But the gang's leader, Ollie Hobart, has even greater ambitions--even if it means inciting war between the United States Cavalry and the Indian nations of the Western plains.