Milo Talon—tracker, fighter, and sometime investigator—takes a job to find a missing heir whose disappearance ties into old grudges and fresh gun smoke. What begins as a simple search runs across ranch country, border towns, and badlands where moneyed interests and hired guns don’t mind spilling blood.

As clues tighten and ambushes stack up, Milo must read the country, play rivals against each other, and decide which truths are worth dying for. It’s a fast, hard-bitten Western mystery with L’Amour’s trademark grit and clean, forward drive.