Salem, Texas. The peaceful prairie town was just about as far out of Longarm's territory as he could get. tracking down a ruthless crook holed up in the local jail. The bandit turned up all right - dead - and Longarm knew he could trust a cold corpse more than the tight-lipped, church-going townsfolk. Soon he was taking on the whole damn bunch of them and wrestling with the devil. . . and a dangerous hot-blooded beauty with a streak of pure evil.