Fighting Blood - Gordon Young;Karl Wurf

A young drifter rides into a desert town looking for work and finds a poker table built to break men. When a blatant cheat is forced to pay back his winnings, the moment of justice turns lethal-because in this place, the saloon, the law, and the graves all answer to the same power.

A mistaken killing makes the drifter the next target, and the trap tightens fast: hired guns in the shadows, uneasy allies with their own secrets, and a widening pattern of "mysterious" deaths on the range. With every step watched and every word risky, survival means reading people as carefully as a deck of marked cards-and deciding whether to run, fight, or ride straight into the storm at the heart of the country.