It started with a slaughter and ended with a massacre, and by the finish of it Sam Judge and Matt Dury had seen enough bloodshed to last them a lifetime. But the gun-fast men from Texas had signed on to help an army officer get his little girl back from the Apache renegades who’d kidnapped her, and once they gave their word, nothing would stop them from seeing a job through. Still, the odds against the success of their mission were almost as high as the odds against their survival. But Sam and Matt had one distinct advantage over their enemies. Because when it came down to cases, they could fight just as mean and just as dirty – as those enemies soon found out.