When Longarm arrives at the Sonora Desert, he walks into a den of dangers in a land where a meager existence scratched out from the land has ranchers and Indians ready to kill without much provocation

Any lawman worth his salt scoffed at the stories of the Red Sash Gang--a band of infamous outlaws blamed for every crime west of the Mississippi. Even Marshal Long had laughed along with the others--until he found out the hard way that the Red Sash Gang was all too real!

Longarm goes gunning for justice on a bloodred vengeance trail. A bloodthirsty gang of murdering bandits is kicking up trouble in Longarm's territory. Everybody reckons that the back-shootin' ringleader is the man folks call "Big" Little. A man Longarm had called friend

A U.S. marshal sees plenty of both, but this time Custis Long's in for more than his share. He's hunting down a sheriff with a shady past when he gets sidetracked by a few pesky item--like a Wells Fargo stage full of gold. Like a trio of gunslicks headed by a pint-sized pistolero named Mary Lou. Like a pretty schoolmarm who's taken hostage in a holdup ...

There's Indian trouble on the Powder River range. The notorious Plimmons brothers are said to be on the loose. One man's already turned up slaughtered--by killer or killers unknown. Marshal Long will be working overtime--not to mention dodging a bullet from an unseen gunman before he even gets started.

Longarm follows a trail of corpses two states long tohunt a lawman gone bad.

Kelly Sisson wasn't called Killer for nothing. Longarm had tussled with the outlaw a few years back, and once was plenty. But now Sisson's escaped from the Denver penitentiary ... and been recaptured way up in Washington Territory, in a town called Moses. And it's up to Longarm to bring him back -- for hanging.