"Territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett hitch figured things had finally settled down in Appaloosa, but then Augustus Noble Driggs is transferred to a nearby penitentiary. Handsome and built like a thoroughbred stallion, Driggs intimidates everyone inside the prison. In a haunting twist of fate, Driggs and a pack of cole-blooded convicts are suddenly on the loose and it's up to any and all territorial lawmen, including Cole and Hitch, to capture the fugitives and rescue the woman kidnaped during their escape. Driggs is quickly on his own furious hunt for a hidden cache of gold and jewels - and for the men who betrayed him"--Page [4] of cover.