The thirty-eighth Western adventure featuring Jubal Stone has arrived! When Warren Wakefield and his gang ride into Waco one early morning just before sunup and shoot Curly Snipes the blacksmith, leaving him for dead, they didn’t know what a powerful mistake they’d made. Jubal is reluctant to leave town not knowing if his friend will live or die, until a gritty Texas Ranger the name of Thorn Hatcher arrives by train and asks Jubal’s help in hunting the gang. Now these two frontier lawmen are in hot pursuit. They won’t stop until Warren Wakefield is in irons or wearing a dirt blanket.