Slocum catches hell in a cattlemen’s conflict! After a particularly hard job, John Slocum stops for a spell in the cattle town of Guadalupe, just north of Mexico. He’s just starting to relax and make friends when the long-standing bad blood between local ranchers spills onto the range—and Slocum gets caught knee-deep in the crimson carnage. What starts with a back-shot cowpuncher and some stolen herds threatens to escalate into all-out war, with every cattleman in the area shooting to kill. But Slocum senses that there’s someone else causing the trouble, and whoever that is has a lot to gain from a range war. With all guns drawn, and every finger on a hair trigger, Slocum has to stop the prairie snake behind the scheme—before his own blood ends up spilled…