Longarm faces a town with a deadly vendetta...
Charlie Bugg is a murdering, thieving scoundrel—and it's up to Deputy U.S. Marshall Long to bring him to justice. Longarm tracks down the thief and quickly apprehends him, but the deputy soon learns that catching the crook is the easy part...
On the way back to Denver, Longarm stops at the prosperous settlement of Val Verde, hoping for a safe place to keep his prisoner for the night. But it turns out that Bugg murdered one of Val Verde's most prominent citizens—and the town is set on exacting their own brand of justice, outside the bounds of the law...
