Calvin Taylor had learned the tricks of his trade scouting against the Apaches. Now the Indian Wars were almost over, he was using those same deadly skills to hunt down lawbreakers of all races.

Taylor believed there was an organisation behind the stock-thieving sweeping Arizona. In the grim Canyon of the Dead he located the robbers' roost and the outlaw leader. But trapped as he was in a web of treachery, violence and intrigue, pursued by a crazed Apache renegade, his next problem was how to get out of the canyon alive and avoid the shadow of the hangman's noose.