"Joe Pickett, still officially a game warden but now mostly a troubleshooter for the governor, is assigned to find out what the truth is about the man of mystery with the massive ranch in the remote Black Hills of Wyoming that nobody ever visits, but he discovers a lot more than he'd bargained for; there are two other men living up at that ranch, one a stone-cold killer who takes an instant dislike to Joe, and the other is new, but Joe knows him all too well"--Provided by publisher.