It was just another poker game, until Hawk drew the dead man’s hand. Aces and eights, the hand Hickok was holding when he went down in a hail of bullets. The hand that meant somebody was going to die...

Hawk wasn’t the one who died that night. And the gunfight that followed got him a job – on the trail of Pole, the outlaw who had gunned down his betrayer and taken the man’s daughter as his revenge. Hawk caught up with them in New Mexico.

Pole was already a dead man. But he didn’t know it until Hawk’s guns came out...