Something is hunting criminals in Eon City. The few survivors describe it as a ten-foot-tall beast with razor-sharp claws and eyes that burn like hellfire. It attacks at night, when crime is most prevalent. Bullets have no effect, nor can you outrun it. In less than a month, there have been over a dozen deaths. Out of desperation, the mob puts a half-million-dollar bounty on the beast’s head.
Enter Darryon Clay, a Vietnam vet turned manhunter and drug addict. His pursuit of the killer leads him down a twisted path that becomes more extraordinary with each new death. Along the way, he teams up with a disgraced preacher and a burnt-out detective. The three are an unlikely bunch, but they are all that stand between the city and an ancient evil on the verge of reawakening.
The Bone Merchant blends hardboiled fiction with dark fantasy to create a hair-raising adventure that’ll keep you reading well past the midnight hour. Jeremy Lee Riley (author of the Sidoria Saga) ratchets up the tension until it explodes in a knock-down, drag-out fight for humanity’s survival. Winner takes all.