Part of Series
THE DAM COULD BURST AT ANY MOMENT! Telegraph lines are cut, and there's no way to call for help, when Federal Marshal Long is faced with a range war. With the aid of a local sheriff who is accused of murder, Longarm tries to reach the Jinglebob dam before angry ranchers blow it up and flood the dry riverbed in which the lawmen are riding. This assignment has Longarm in a quandary. Five lives have already been lost, one ranch house has been burned, and several farmers brutally beaten, all in a desperate struggle for precious land. And the beautiful widow who seduced the marshal at the hotel in Harmony has turned out to be a bold and ruthless schemer.
Author
Tabor Evans is the author of the long-running Longarm western series, featuring the adventures of Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long. Tabor Evans, is a house pseudonym used by a number of authors. The pseudonym of Tabor Evans would begin in the 1970s when Lou Cameron established it for the Jove Books publishing label. Lou Cameron helped create the character and wrote a number of the early books in the series. The first book was published in 1978. Other authors known to have written books in the series include Melvin Marshall, Will C. Knott, Frank Roderus, Chet Cunningham, J. Lee Butts, Gary McCarthy, James Reasoner, Jeffrey M. Wallmann, Peter Brandvold and Harry Whittington. In addition there are 29 "Giant" editions published as well. The Longarm series is a mainstay of the "adult western" genre which arose in the 1970s. These books are distinguished from classical westerns by the inclusion of more explicit sex and violence.
