"Town marshal "Bloody" Joe Mannion plays cat and mouse with an old enemy ... Joe believes the old regulator, "Long-Shot" Hunter Drago, who did twelve years' hard time because of Mannion, has moved to the town of Del Norte in the Colorado Territory to kill him. But, nearly everyone else in town believes he's there to take over the Three-Legged Dog Saloon and to begin a new, peaceful life for himself. Mannion doesn't buy a word of it. When he catches Drago palling around with his daughter, Evangeline, and beats the old killer half to death on Del Norte's main street for all to see, the town decides Bloody Joe has finally gone too far. As the game of cat and mouse continues, Mannion finds himself dodging a veritable lead storm nearly everywhere he goes, culminating in a bloody showdown on the stone mountain called Burial Rock, where he finds that not only his own life hangs in the balance, but that of his lover, Jane Ford, as well. He's going to have to move fast and shoot straight to escape a blood bath ..."--Back cover