Sault Sainte Marie is a town on the Lake Superior frontier poised for a boom. Minerals are discovered and the only way to ship them is through town. Arriving on a schooner is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a plot that includes murder, robbery and treason.
They shouldn't have tried to mess with Gabriel that day, Corporal Ferguson and his friends from the fort. They got his attention. They should have let him drink in peace. Now they've got trouble from, what Andrew Jackson called "The Meanest Man He Ever Knew."
From the moment the Bigg Man entered Jake Small's saloon, things began to happen. First it's a fight, then a man is killed at the Blood and Guts Saloon, the stranger is arrested before coffee, and everytime he gets a glass of whiskey there's an interruption.
That's leaves only one solution, a bad attitude, guns, and Gabriel Biggs.