When Wes Persell decides to quit the owlhoot trail, he absconds with the payroll from a bank robbery hiding the loot in the Arizona ghost town of El Diablo. His intention is at some point to hand it back to the authorities. But his old gang boss,Three-fingered Jack Stanton, has other ideas. On learning that his old comrade faces a meeting with the hangman, Wes's conscience forces him to rescue Stanton. But he refuses to forget about the stolen loot after the pair split. He and his gang track their betrayer down to the New Mexico town of Quemado forcing him and a female hostage to lead them to the hidden stash. The trek back to El Diablo is fraught with pitfalls. So who will emerge unscathed from the duel of wits between the old buddies? Many bullets will fly before the final showdown. Josiah Boone writes frontier fiction rooted in endurance, moral choice, and the quiet strength of ordinary people. His stories are set against the harsh beauty of the American high country, where survival tests not only the body but the heart.Boone's work blends rugged realism with deeply human stakes - tales of winter, reckoning, and the long road toward redemption.
