Aided by a young woman who instintivly knows he is a good man a wrongly convicted man will go to any extreme to escape and clear his name.
"Enjoy the good old stuff." So says the back cover of Leonard's tough and realistic western. My husband devoured it. When asked if he enjoyed the book, he said, "Yup." High praise from this man of few words.
Good early Elmore. If you like his modern era novels, you should also like his westerns.