Dave Kralick was a big man, heavy-boned and violent. He had to be to stay alive in the brawling, untamed Oregon territory, where every man was his own law. But even Kralick wasnt tough or shrewd enough to match the treachery of a friend. From the night his sister Judy was betrayed by the man she loved, Kralick was a man who lived only to destroy. Sworn to finding the man who had raped his sister, he was cold and ruthless the way a man got when he knew he either had to kill or be killed.