It is 1917. The Great War, the War To End All Wars, has raged across the globe for three long years. The Russians are ready to sue for peace and the French and British are exhausted. Germany and Austria-Hungary are close to winning as they look west. But across the Atlantic, Woodrow Wilson is planning on declaring war. And a million fresh American troops will tip the balance in the Allies favor.In New Mexico, former President Theodore Roosevelt is training his Rough Rider Volunteer regiments in the desert, hoping to be sent to war. But he is not the hero he once was. Ernest Hemingway is on his first job, an assignment as a reporter for the Kansas City Star. He has come to New Mexico to investigate an abandoned mining town.Together, they discover there is an evil rising in the Mexican desert. Towns and Native-American tribes are vanishing. The dead are being reborn. Teddy Roosevelt is going to ride into battle one last time and Ernest Hemingway is embarked on his first great adventure against an ancient and powerful enemy.

This is an out and out pulp thriller that moves like a runaway freight train." ESO Network Review Back Cover texts (could be a blurb, synopsis, or about the book): Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison are chased into the Old West by a Gunslinger Vampire who fears their electricity will KILL THE NIGHT... An adventure that stretches from Paris to New York, through the 1893 Worlds Fair to the Old West. Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison are racing to see who will lead the Twentieth Century into the Electric Age. But the night holds tightly to its dark corners. A mysterious and dangerous Gunslinger is watching, following, and waiting for an opportunity to turn back history. He will chase Tesla, Edison, and journalist Ida Tarbell from Chicago to Kansas City, across the Kansas plains, and to the mountains of Colorado. Believing their electricity will destroy everything he loves, he has one objective-stop the inventors and destroy their inventions.

"Originally commenced as a pastime, and to please a circle of friends alone, success, in any degree, can only be hoped for, because of my vantage ground as an intimate and close friend of Mr. Lincoln, and because, by reason of such intimacy, of the novelty of some of the facts and deductions, and not, in any sense, by reason, but in spite of, its literary style or, rather, the lack thereof."--Preface.