Amazon.com description: Product Description: A powerful and richly imagined tale of the Old West from the acknowledged master of crime fiction...After a bloody confrontation in Appaloosa, Everett Hitch heads into the afternoon sun and ends up in Resolution, an Old West town so new the dust has yet to settle. It's the kind of town that doesn't have much in the way of commerce, except for a handful of saloons and some houses of ill repute. Hitch takes the job as lookout at Amos Wolfson's Blackfoot Saloon and quickly establishes himself as protector of the ladies who work the backrooms.