After years of leading cavalry patrols into hostile territory,

Captain Vincent Bolton wasn t about to put up with the

bullying tactics of a renegade like Big Jim Congor. But Bol-

ton hadn t reckoned on just how far Congor would go to

further his sinister plans. For Congor had dark designs on

the frightened town of Socorro--he d already turned the

peaceful saloon into a den of thieves and the respectable

hotel into a bordello, and now he had his gun sighted on the

defiant Bolton. Soon, as Bolton guides a Spanish dignitary

and his lovely daughter on a sacred mission through the

stark deserts of New Mexico, Congor will make his move...

with blood fire in his eyes, greed in his heart, and hot lead in

his six-shooter.