Who Hired the Killer to Walk Our Streets?

That was the headline of the Lodestar newspaper. The answer was Krayle MacIver.

Krayle had hired the killer because he figured it was high time something was done about the trigger-happy band of toughs and bandits that were wrecking the town. The sheriff has proven helpless, so Krayle had sent for Ethan Scott.

But once Scott was in town, the matter was out of anyone’s hands. Scott was ruthless, efficient, and cool. Anyone who now tried to stop him would be just another target for his deadly bullets.

And Krayle didn’t know whether he was already marked for such a target.