Slocum's in a fistful of trouble with a deadly desperado.
Owen Surret earned his living doing dirty jobs for dangerous men. Then he went into business for himself, looting his employers of their ill-gotten gain, before murdering a rancher and rustling cattle. Pursued by the outlaws he betrayed, Surret is pulling up stakes and needs some cowboys to drive his herd to safer ground.
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John Slocum has enough skills to join Surret’s gang—but only long enough to generate heat with a blacksmith’s daughter…and find a way to collect the bounty on the thieving killer’s head…