"The Colt on the right with the Rosewood gripis to defend myself against humans. It's usually loaded with regular lead slugs. But this Colt on my left with the grip of bone...is to defend myself against my own breed. It's loaded with bullets of pure silver, blessed with holy water by a priest friend of mine. The effect of this bullet, fired into a vampire's skull is to burn the creatures body and reduce to a fine ash...

This was a cool novella, written so well with excellent characters...as usual from McCammon.

It sort of ended rather abruptly though; but there's a second book so....I'll definitely get to it at some point!

I felt it had the same sort of vibe as Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin and the main character Lawson reminded me of Roland Deschain from The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. 

Lawson is employed to rescue the relative of a politician who has been taken hostage by a group known as the Dark Society.

That's all I'll say about it.

Go read it if you're a fan of vampire fiction!