dmdutcher says:

I finallly got around to reading this. It’s good, but intense.

In the later years of the old west, there’s a group of vigilantes called the Nightriders. Their goal? To try and stem the savagery of the west as man mistreats man, often in the name of God. Unfortunately the appearance of a brutal criminal even by the standards of an anarchic frontier is going to draw them into an epic final battle of good and evil. And, of course, there are those aliens that keep showing up..

It’s an intense book that pulls few punches. This isn’t the romanticized “singing cowboy” west, but one where injustice, racism, (often shocking) and crime exists openly. There’s a lot of regret at what a nation supposedly founded on the ideas of Christ has done. But the heart of the book is a great action-adventure between charismatic, even mythic vigilantes trying to serve God and save lives, and brutal enemies both human and non who want to snuff them for their own reasons.

This is a Hinterlands book, so expect adult-level violence and themes. It definitely keeps up to the standards of his earlier works, and begs for some type of visual adaptation, be it comic or movie.