Wherever he went, trouble followed!

When Matt Bartlett rode into Sun Dog, the last thing he was lookin' for was a new mess of trouble. Matter of fact, he was aiming to get himself a small spread and set to forgetting the brutal Lincoln County fracas he'd finally gotten away from. But, a stranger in Sun Dog didn't stand much chance of keeping peaceably to himself. Not with a pair of trigger-happy gunmen running the town, using their bullets to protect a vicious rustling racket. Especially when they had been looking for a newcomer to take the blame for it all. And, as far as these gun-toting varmints were concerned, Matt filled the bill perfectly.

Seemed as if things started going wrong places just as Matt drifted in. Some folks even called him a "jinx". This time, it was Sun Dog and Matt'd landed in a hornet's nest of trouble. Way Matt figured it he only had one choice, find out who was really behind the dirty work or do his own ranching in the graveyard. Either way, like everywhere else Matt had been, there was gonna be gunsmoke at Sun Dog.

In this powerful Western classic, by a man who had been a ranchhand and was published by the same publishers as his contemporary Louis L'Amour, you will meet:

• Matt Bartlett: He discovered finding his enemy was easy - proving him behind Sun Dog's chicanery nearly impossible.
• Ada Simmons: She headed west and wore men's clothes, to hide her woman's heart.
• Kansas Tanner: He judged men quickly, but not always correctly.
• Harvey Rogers: Sunset Ranch was his life line and his death warrant.
• Duncan Fell: Sun Dog's easygoing banker, everybody liked him, but nobody knew him well.
• Faro Hillberg: This gunslinger could be hired, but not fired.
• Cosmo Bender: His shooting was straighter than his thinking.