"The letter forwarded from the local federal law office in El Paso read: "All hell's fixin' to break loose up here. Sheriff's scairt to make a move. I ain't. I fit Injuns an' polecats before an' no bunch of masked tinhorn killers is gonna run me off my place. Send a man down to my place an' I'll tell him what I know. Don't let the sheriff in on it. He ain't worth a tinker's dam. Don't send no darn fool here either. I don't want to have to bury him....

"No vengeance is more deadly than that of a grief-stricken woman whose husband has been violently killed. In the case of Louella Snow, her grief was intensified by the briefness of her marriage to Luke. And her determination to make his killer pay was in no way lessened by the fact that it was a woman, Nina Telfors, whom she held responsible for Luke's death. Lou Winters, a newcomer to Concho Valley, had his own reasons for cutting into the vengeance...

"Doc, Jackson, and the Kid, a trio of gunslingers known as the Unholy Three, are hired to come to Del Rio to buck Yaegar, the boss of the Diamond Cross spread whose hands are hired gun. But the Kid has a history there and enemies that want his trail to end"--

"A Wells Fargo special agent and a bounty hunter cross paths as they both track the Sonora Kid after the theft of ninety thousand dollars from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The Kid plans to use the money to buy guns for Mexican revolutionaries"--