From Ray Hogan, one of America’s most popular Western authors, comes a double-barreled action adventure with plenty of hard riding, hard fighting, and hard loving.
Riley Tabor is a tall, tough, seasoned cowhand who’s out of a job and running low on luck. In Dodge City, he ought to know better than to get mixed up in another man’s fight, but good sense doesn’t count for much when a pretty girl asks for your help. With six-guns drawn, Riley follows the beauty into a flop-house to bail her paramour, Adam Hale, out of a jam — killing a man in the process.
Making a quick getaway, Riley figures he just may have found his ticket west to a new life in Hale, a slick lawyer from back east with a fatal weakness for attractive women. Only Riley now finds himself caught in the crossfire of his new partner’s troubles (mostly jealous husbands and irate fathers). When Hale is killed in a freak accident, and Riley becomes heir to a fancy buggy, a team of horses, and a trunk full of money, he figures his worries are over. But heading west on the wagon train trail, trying to keep his neck out of a noose and with his shotgun his only companion, Riley discovers his own problems are just beginning.