Slocum was on his way out of town. Then an old debt rode up out of the past looking to be paid. The brother of a man Slocum had out-gunned in a fair fight was hungry for blood. Soon the big southerner was caught in a savage crossfire of hot lead and blood-boiling vengeance.

Color illustration on front cover of three superimposed images: two figures embracing in front of a church, a woman firing a rifle, standing between two men, and a larger image of a man's face.

It's a rough ride for Slocum when he's caught in the cross fire of two rival railway gangs.

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John Slocum is hot on the trail of a low-down, hard case who's making a killing robbing railroad workers--and whose aim is to join up with a murdering gang of outlaws. But Lady Luck turns her back on Slocum. When his horse breaks a leg, he finds himself caught in a firestorm of hot lead.

The bounty hunters are crawling out of the woodwork -- as Slocum fights to save a general's life.