"Add [Cole and Hitch] to all the great characters that Robert B. Parker created."—Bookreporter

In this thrilling western mystery, a bank robbery in San Cristóbal is yielding its fair share of surprises for Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch. It draws the duo into a plot involving the bank president himself, the daughter of St. Louis’s most prominent millionaire, and a notorious desperado who holds the key to unlocking a family secret that raises revenge to a whole new level.