What should have been a routine prisoner pickup turns ugly for Longarm when the young offender's father has no intention of letting his son go to Denver for trial, putting a bounty on the lawman's head.

Longarm’s in for a chilly reception from cold-blooded killers…
Like most folks, Longarm has always been fond of his extremities—you might even say he’s attached to them. So after he’s coldcocked following an ill-advised liaison with a gorgeous grifter on a train and tossed buck-naked into the snowdrifts of the Dakota Territory, he’s more than a little worried about frostbite…not to mention death.
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Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long's got no stomach for yellow-bellied killers-but when a gang of outlaws takes to decapitating deputies, it's Longarm who loses his head. The worst of the bunch is a wild hellcat by the name of Bella Flowers, who's going to be pushing up daisies just like her cold-blooded compadres if she keeps putting up a fight. Once he's got Bella hogtied, handcuffed, and headed for hanging, Longarm runs afoul of a mysterious bushwhacker....

Riding down to the border town of Holy Defiance to find the killers of some Arizona Rangers and a stolen cache of gold, U.S. Marshal Custis Long, with a pretty Pinkerton agent by his side, tangles with banditos, Apaches and a wealthy ranch owner and his wild wife along the way.

Longarm comes to Fort Marion to extradite prisoner Anton Gardner, who robbed a military payroll and killed seven men. But when he's set upon by too many enemies to handle, Gardner escapes with Longarm's badge and impersonates him. One thing's for sure...Longarm is not down for the count.

NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES When you mess with the mail, you mess with Longarm. Two mail bags have been stolen from a Union Pacific train-and the postal worker guarding them has a bullet hole in his skull. Since there are no signs of forced entry, Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long can only assume the postal agent was in cahoots with the train robbers, who then double-crossed their inside man and made his wife a widow. Teaming up with a ravishing U. S. Treasury...