When the town's newspaper office is burnt to the ground and the owner murdered, suspicion falls on the young deputy marshal of Progress, Lane Cutler. His alibi - that he was being held prisoner and tortured at the time of the killing - persuades veteran lawman Ben McCabe to go in search of the truth. The marshal runs into a wall of silence, propped up by blackmail and revenge, and when there are more killings, McCabe is forced to enlist a friend of Cutler's, to stand by his side during the final violent showdown...
- ISBN10 1444827197
- ISBN13 9781444827194
- Publish Date 1 February 2016 (first published 1 March 2014)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 April 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher F A Thorpe (Publishers)
- Imprint Ulverscroft Ltd
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English