"Sheriff Bo Tully is the kind of western lawman who's as good with the ladies as he is with guns, and he never lets a death threat get in the way of a good barbeque. In this latest tale, Tully pursues a seventy-five-year-old missing persons case in which a pair of gold miners mysteriously disappeared just as they hit the mother lode in a remote part of Blight County. Meanwhile, after serving only two months of a life sentence, a mentally unstable murderer escapes prison set on killing the man who put him there: one Sheriff Bo Tully"--Cover, pages 4.