The next gritty gun-slinging entry in theNew York Timesndashbestselling series featuring itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett HitchTerritorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back in Appaloosa where their work enforcing the law has been exceptionally quiet All that is about to change An ominous storm rolls in and along with it a band of night riders with a devious scheme who show up at the Rio Blanco camp where a three-hundred-foot bridge is under constructionAppaloosarsquos Sheriff Sledge Driskill and his deputies are the first to respond but as the storm grows more threatening news of troubles at the bridge escalate and the Sheriff and his deputies go missingVirgil and Everett saddle up to sort things out but before they do the hard drinking Beauregard Beauchamp arrives in Appaloosa with his Theatrical Extravaganza troupe and the promise of the best in lively entertainment west of the Mississippi With the troupe comes a lovely and mysterious fortune-teller who is set on saving Everett from imminent but indefinable dangerThe trouble at the bridge the missing lawmen the new arrivals and Everettrsquos shoot-out in front of Halrsquos Cafeacute arenrsquot the only things on Cole and Hitchrsquos plate as a gang of unsavory soldiers ease into town with a shady alibi shadier intentions and a soon-to-be-discovered wake of destructionAs clouds over Appaloosa continue to gather things get much worse for Cole and Hitchhellip.
