Lafe Gunnison had passed the word to the homesteaders—quit stealing cattle or take the consequences! Up in the Mesquites, the nesters reacted the only way they knew: they told Gunnison he was a liar and if he showed up in their neck of the woods he’d wind up with a tombstone over his head.

It was trouble—big trouble—all it needed was one small spark to start a war to the death. Only one man could stop it. One man—backed by his courage and the guns he wore. A man with a past, scouring the West for two killers—a man called—Sudden.