Dan Gentry's military career lies trampled in the dust beside the arrow-pierced bodies of the men who served under him. Deliberately cloaking a dead lieutenant's foolhardiness with his own silence, Dan Gentry is court-martialed and disgraced. An outcast, he finds pretty Faith Tipton, wounded and unconscious, the sole survivor of an Apache raid. In love with this girl, Dan tries to protect her from the sinister designs of greedy, furtive Caleb Ash-and Dan and Faith are plunged into a maelstrom of deadly perils as the ex-soldier becomes first the hunter, then the hunted.

Peter Dawson is the pen name of author Jonathan Hurff Glidden, an American author born in Kewanee, Illinois. In his career as a Western author, he has published over a dozen Western novels and over 120 shorter works for the magazine market. His first novel,The Crimson Horseshow, won the 1941 Dodd, Mead Prize for Best Western of the Year.