Duke Albright's the terror of Kiowa, Colorado. His ruthless boys are posting barbed wire fences on the land of hardworking homesteaders--not to mention rustling cattle and stealing water. When an old friend of Longarm's calls on him to teach the bullies a lesson, it's one bloody gunfight.

Color illustration of a man in yellow shirt and brown vest, loading a cartrige into a smoking gun. He stands near a river in woodland landscape. The scene is superimposed over a man's face in profile, two figures embracing, and a man on horseback riding in the river.

Claude has an intuitive faith in something splendid and feels at odds with his contemporaries. The war offers him the opportunity to forget his farm and his marriage of compromise; he enlists and discovers that he has lacked. But while war demands altruism, its essence is destructive

The fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. Here we find our hero Richard Hannay living a quiet life in the countryside with a wife and young child but his past comes back to haunt him and he once more must face up to an arch-enemy.