For years Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch have ridden roughshod over rabble-rousers and gun hands in troubled towns like Appaloosa Resolution and Brimstone Now newly appointed as Territorial Marshalls they find themselves traveling by train through the Indian Territories Their first marshaling duty starts out as a simple mission to escort Mexican prisoners to the border but when the Governor of Texas his wife and daughters climb aboard with their bodyguards and in tow their journey suddenly becomes a lot more complicatedThe problem is Bloody Bob Brandice He and Virgil have had it out before an encounter that left Brandice face-down in the street with two slugs lodged in him Now twelve years later on a night train struggling uphill in a thunderstorm Brandice is back ndash and hersquos not alone Cole and Hitch find themselves in the midst of a heist with a horde of very bad men two beautiful young hostages and a man with a vendetta hersquos determined to carry out.
