A baby-faced murderer is leaving a trail of corpses across the Montana territory. A killing machine in boots, Ned Larson has already sent one unlucky lawman to an early grave. And Longarm is next on this bloodthirsty outlaw's death list. Raring to answer Larson's challenge, Longarm fixes to swap hot lead with a cold-blooded killer. But the weak-kneed officials tie his hands ... they want this butcher brought back alive!

Longarm heads to a town called Hardwater to find out why the dying is easy… When hard-livin’ bully Cracker Marner finally ran out of luck, dying came easy. A few shots to the chest by a smaller man with a bigger hat. That’s all anyone at the saloon remembers about the killer. Then in early spring, another stranger bellies up to the same bar and shoots the barkeep at point-blank range…just because he couldn’t “remember.” Now the problem is federal—with Marshal Custis Long on the case. There are two places Longarm can look for answers: Cracker’s hot-tempered widow and his ma. But the hardest question still isn’t who could’ve wanted this unpopular man dead, it’s who could’ve wanted him alive…

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Some say that wearing a badge makes a man stand a mite taller than others. but Sheriff Gil Blowser could change their minds about that. Gil is a double dealin' polecat who's discovered that sportin a star on your chest makes the best cover of all. And when Marshal Long tags along with Blowser's posse on the trail of highwaymen, he fins himself at the business end of an outlaw iron sooner than he expected. Seems this time the law and the outlaws are one and the same and any way you look at it, Longarm's on the wrong side.

Longarm sticks his neck out for justice. Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is just minding his own business when he rides into a town surrounded. The local lawman explains that the townsfolk lynched an innocent man, the son of a powerful rancher. Now the rancher has vowed to burn the town to the ground and kill every man, woman, and child in it. Longarm’s got a town to save—and a lonely widow to comfort. He rode into this mess on his own and he’ll get out of it on his own, by facing down the rancher, mano a mano.

Longarm longs to send this posse a-packin’! Everybody in Denver remembers the ruthless massacre at a local bank ’round five years back, but not a living soul has seen hide nor hair of the posse since. The murderers scooted out of town with a good passel of loot—and their identities unknown. But when one of them, at death’s door, decides to come clean before the Lord and the law, deputy marshal Long uses his leads—and vows to avenge the murder of the innocents. With some dirt on his targets gathered from a lonely, young landlady—who’ll only give away one secret per night of low-down lovin’—Longarm thinks he can sniff out their track. But to do this, he’ll have to uncover a trail hidden under five years’ worth of dust…

Longarm grapples with a ruthless cattleman - and three beautiful women.