As a deputy marshal of the U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in the 1880s, Harry Cole was well qualified for the tough and demanding work he did, and took a passionate pride in the knowledge that he was better at it than almost anybody else. In fact, there was nothing Cole valued so much as his job. and he let nothing interfere with it--not friendship or personal loyalties, or even his beautiful wife, Cordelia. There were times, though, when...

"A Western story of a town that took the law into its own hands and lynched a young man and then lived in fear of retribution when they discovered he was the kid brother of a famed outlaw"--

"He was young and hard and dangerous and he had learned it all from the most notorious badman who ever rode the border -- his father, Nate Blaine. He was young Jeff Blaine, greased lightning with a gun or a card, on the road to hell -- and looking for a shortcut!"--

"When Willie McGuire accidentally breaks Jeremy Hooker's leg, the gunfighter offers a $1000 reward for Willie's capture. What follows is a tale of pursuit and escape, spiced with the humorous antics of a well-intentioned but bungling cowboy"--