"Jason Keeler, a newly arrived lawyer, helps the towns of Enid and Pond Creek, Oklahoma, in their struggle against the unscrupulous railroad owners"--

When Andy Bagley returns home after two years in prison, he finds that his mother has died, his brother has turned against him, his best girl has married another man, and that, in the eyes of the townspeople, he is nothing more than an ex-convict. When a robbery takes place and three men are murdered, it is Andy who becomes the prime suspect and target for a lynch mob.

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"The stage lurched as Coe was straightening out of a switchback. He felt an instant and paralyzing flash of alarm. My God, Coe thought. My nerves are strung tight. The alarm vanished as the stage continued moving, scraping the hewed-out bank and hanging over the steep drop. His mouth opened wide with an un-screamed cry of fear. His tongue was plastered to the roof of his mouth, and he couldn't make a sound. It seemed as though the right rear wheel...

For two years, Ross Stone had followed a lonely, twisted trail, tracking a man whose face he had never seen. The stranger had stolen his wife and child and left Stone with an empty house and a hate as big as the West. The trail Stone followed led to the raw violence of a Gold Rush town -- and straight into a killer's trap.