Summary
A laconic wrangler drifts into the scorched maw of Hell’s Hole, chasing the ghost of a father who vanished like smoke off a spent shell; there he collides with Helen Turner, whose gaze already carries the weight of a burial, and with Jack Hall, a bandit prince ruling over rust and rattlesnakes. In the crucible of red dust and kerosene dusk, Hall guns down Helen’s sire, a thunder-crack that ricochets through box-canyon shadows, then flings every card of death at the quiet horseman who refuses to fold. Jack Bliss—stoic as quartz, fierce as a summer squall—answers with fists, revolvers, and the righteous arithmetic of a son tallying blood for blood, while neighboring cattlemen and sheepherders stampede in, a human storm front cleansing the gulch of its vermin. When the gun-smoke finally lifts, Hall kneels, voice cracked open like a dried creek bed, confessing the patricide that set the cyclone spinning, and Bliss, bullet-bitten but unbroken, rides out with Helen under a sky scrubbed clean by gunfire.
Synopsis
Quiet and fair-minded Jack Bliss traces his missing father to Hell's Hole, where he meets Helen Turner and Jack Hall, the leader of an outlaw gang rendezvousing at Hell's Hole. Hall kills Helen's father but fails in his attempts to get rid of Bliss and Helen, and Bliss, single-handed, takes on the gang while the neighboring ranchers, settlers, and herders unite to clean out the outlaws. They arrive in time to save Bliss and Helen and to hear Hall's confession to the murder of Bliss's father.
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