"Leader of the last of the great outlaw bands--the Oklahombres, Bill Doolin outfoxed the law while trying to walk the line between being a good man and bad. He was a family man and a bank and train and stagecoach robber. By the end of his reign, almost every one of his gang had been gunned down, and now the law was out to finish him as well. But it would not be easy, not even for the likes of the famed U.S. Marshals led by Heck Thomas. A fictional...

Reluctantly accepting the job of marshal in the lawless town of Sweet Sorrow in the Dakota territories, Jake Horn, a one-time doctor accused of a murder he did not commit, finds himself in the midst of a vicious crime wave, but he soon finds his life complicated by the arrival of a famous bounty hunter from Bismarck, who is determined to collect the reward for bringing in fugitive Jake Horn.