When an Apache raiding party showed up, McAllister was grateful for help from an extra gun. Problem was, the gun belonged to Dan Gruber, the brutal outlaw he was supposed to be bringing to justice for robbery and murder. And once the Indian trouble was over, Gruber sure wasn't going to come meekly and put his head in the hangman's noose. The outlaw would move fast, use every dirty trick to stay alive. But then Rem McAllister was pretty good at staying alive too...