Longarm has worn out his welcome…
It should have been a routine prisoner pickup. But when Deputy U. S. Marshal Custis Long arrives in Curen Town, the young offender's father-who happens to run the town named after him-has no intentions of letting his son go to Denver for trial. When bribery and deception fail, Edward Curen, Sr. , resorts to more desperate measures to stop Longarm-namely a $5, 000 bounty on the lawman's head.
Money like that is enough to turn decent townsfolk blood simple-and it does. Now every dark alley of Curen Town may be hiding an assassin-man, woman, or child-and if Longarm aims to leave town in one piece, he'll need to shoot his way out…