"Itinerent lawment Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return in a new installment of the series created by Robert B. Parker"-- Provided by publisher.
Investigating a major bank robbery only to discover its primary suspect severely beaten outside a high-class brothel, Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch are forced to rely on a recently captured bandito for clues to a high-stakes Cain-and-Abel vengeance quest.