Three men slipped into a saloon. Their eyes were cold, hooded; their guns close at hand. Outside on the street were twenty more men, seeking vengeance with a grim intensity.Pat Alder had been warned that this was the toughest town he'd hit on the trail to Abilene, but the boss of the Box A hadn't heeded. Now young Kern Alder lay dead, and the Texans prepared to wipe out a town!