''Dust of the Damned'' is a 2012 novel by Western author

Peter Brandvold Peter Brandvold is an American western fiction author. Life Born in North Dakota, bestselling western novelist Peter Brandvold has penned over seventy fast-action westerns under his own name and his pen name, Frank Leslie. He is the author of ...

. It is a

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with supernatural content. The two main characters are

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hunter Uriah Zane, and beautiful Deputy

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Aubrey Coffin.

Plot

''Dust of the Damned'' is about fugitive werewolves who were released from prison by

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to help him fight the

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on the condition that after the war they would return to Eastern Europe but they did not keep their promise and headed to the

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. Zane and Coffin's job is to hunt them down.

References

2012 American novels 2010s horror novels American horror novels Horror Westerns United States Marshals Service in fiction Werewolf novels Western (genre) novels Berkley Books books {{2010s-horror-novel-stub