The sagebrush country remembers every secret.

For twenty years Clay Ransom rode the frontier as a lawman and a gunfighter. Now the towns are changing, the railroad is coming, and men like him are supposed to fade quietly into the dust.

But someone in Dry Wash wants him dead.

When a respected rancher is murdered and the blame falls on Ransom, the old gunman finds himself hunted by the very town he once protected. The killers think they've cornered a tired old man.

They're wrong.

Clay Ransom knows the country better than any of them. He knows every wash, every ridge, every patch of tall sage where a patient man can wait with a steady gun.

And Clay Ransom has never lost a gunfight.

Now the hunters are riding straight into an ambush they'll never forget.

Because in the tall grass of the frontier…

death is waiting.