Color illustration of three superimposed vignettes: head portrait in profile of man wearing a western hat and smoking a cigarillo; man in western clothing firing a pistol at the back of another man holding a rifle in his proper right hand; man removing his white shirt looking down at a woman reclining on a bed wearing a white camisole and purple skirt with an orange blanket covering part of her proper left leg.
Longarm deals a quick death to one of the most notorious killers of the Old West--Dan Marlow, who's been hunted and shot a dozen times before and survived. Until Longarm. Now, the folks of Saddle Rock claim that Marlow is back from the grave, and they have a dead constable to prove it. Now Longarm has to figure out how to kill someone who's already dead.
The town of San Angelo is not known for trouble, which is why Longarm doesn't understand why soldiers from Fort Concho are being killed in the middle of the night. Posing as a gambler and horse trader, Longarm must discover whether it's greed or just plain craziness fueling the killer.