Someone is trying to sabotage the construction of the Toynbee and Twin Rocks Railroad. A stagecoach line, bitterly opposed to the railroad, may be behind it. But since no one can prove it, U.S. Marshal Custis Long is put on the case.
Asking around the towns of Toynbee and Twin Rocks, Longarm gets jumped in a dark alley. He suspects that the mugging may have been a cover for an attempted murder. Whatever the scheme isand whoever is responsibleLongarm is damn sure going to blow holes in it