Publisher's Synopsis
John Carshalton, lately of the British army, returns to the town of Arabella, Kansas to take up a new job as town sheriff. He earns the respect of the townspeople and enjoys a peaceful life until he gets word of outlaw gangs terrorizing towns along the Kansas-Missouri border. Army intelligence suggests these are no ordinary gangs, but part of a larger force, and when John is asked by an army officer to pose as a British Army deserter and try to infiltrate whatever kind of force is being raised he agrees. However, John soon finds him caught up in a web of violence and intrigue that threatens to destroy him and all he holds dear.
