There wasn’t much law in the Rio Verde Valley – not beyond what a man carried holstered on his gunbelt. And the men who left Mary Koch raped and dead thought they were beyond justice... They hadn’t counted on John T. McLain.

McLain didn’t want the job, but he was the closest Garrison had to a lawman. And when he took the badge he wasn’t going to let anything or anyone stand between the killers and the hangman’s rope...