Claudius Max could bring half the country to its knees ...He was that rich ... and that ruthless. But with all the power the railroad had brought him, he still did not have the thing he wanted most. To see Latigo Cantrell dead.Mrs. Amanda Cutler, on the other hand, wanted Latigo very much alive. He had given her the pleasure of seeing her husband's murderers cut down. Now this, calculating beauty had other pleasures in mind for the handsome half breed.But Cole Latigo Cantrell was only interested in justice. The kind you get with a gun or a knife or a rope ...

Three ugly bushwhackers were terrorizing Cole Cantrell's friends into selling out to the railroad. Claudius Max, the vicious sonofabitch who owned the railroad, was backing them up. He was also the man who had killed Cantrell's parents. Then there was Max's latest hired gun, the smooth killer August Pyne.Max figured Cantrell—better-known as Latigo—was finished.But Cantrell had his friends too. Trouble was, most of them were women who wanted him to spend the rest of his days in their beds.So when it came to facing the most violent men in the West, Cantrell was on his own.And nobody knew that better than he did.

On one side, a ruthless railroad king and the coldest-blooded killers in the West. On the other side, one man—Latigo—a proud-hearted rover with just one thing on his mind—revenge.Now, in the sprawling, rough-and-tumble frontier country where what's right and what's wrong are measured by the fast draw of cold steel, a woman is about to hang for a murder she didn't commit. Latigo has been summoned to her rescue. And, at last, the trap is set for him.

Son of a trapper and an Indian princess, Latigo vowed he would never again draw blood after the carnage of the Civil War. Then he returned to find his home a smoldering ruin and his folks forever silenced, murdered by a ruthless railroad tycoon and his hired guns. That was the day Latigo hit the trail to vengeance, the day his guns came roaring back to life ... the day a legend was born in the Montana hills ...