Spur Award-Winning Author, winner of the 2007 Spur Award for Best Original Paperback Novel for The Horse Creek Incident.

"Dusty Richards writes with the flavor of the real West." —Elmer Kelton

SOME CALLED IT A CRIME.

In a hot Arizona river basin, three bodies sway from ropes—executed by their fellow ranchers. Hundreds of miles away, in the muddy streets of Fort Smith, Arkansas, a deputy marshal hunts down a killer, the first of eight outlaws on his list. Now, the manhunter is about to be chosen for a mission to Arizona Territory. Major Gerald Bowen wants Luther Haskell to go undercover and find the truth about what happened.

HE CALLED IT JUSTICE.

Bowen is on a campaign to bring law to the frontier, and Haskell is the right agent to investigate the deaths. But in Arizona, Luther comes up against a wall of silence and a family guarding a deadly secret. And in a land where some people get second chances and some don't get one at all, Luther Haskell must make his way through the good, the bad, and the damned—in pursuit of a cold-blooded killer with a plan of his own…

"Gritty, fast-paced...a classic Western." —W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, authors of People of the Mist on The Lawless Land