A SHORT FUSE Little Elm, Kansas, was a peaceful frontier community—until the town got blasted to splinters. A gang of bank robbers dealing in dynamite have decimated the town. Finding their methods a little excessive—and explosive—for your average group of bandits, the U.S. Marshal's office dispatches Longarm to investigate. Posing as a journalist, he befriends a local widow—who the townsfolk regard with suspicion. Her late husband was a valued associate of the dynamite thieves. But if he's dead, who's helping the gang with their explosives now? The answer just might end up blowing Longarm away...