Sir Piegan Passes

In the rough mining town of Micaville, greedy assayer Solomon Kane has grown rich cheating prospectors and buying up abandoned claims, but one property obsesses him above all others: the Jennie and Joe claim, held by stubborn old Cale Winters and his proud, wary family. Jennie openly despises Kane, Cale refuses to sell, and Kane's assistant, the gold-savvy Bush Cleveland, knows the land may hide a rich vein of ore. When profit stalls, Kane begins to consider murder as just another business expense. Into this trap rides the Piegan Kid, a hard, silent drifter who wins a horse and saddle at poker and is drawn into Kane's office for a grim bargain. Offered an ever-rising payoff, he is asked to kill Winters and make it look like self-defense. But the Kid is more observant than he seems, and after pocketing the money he leaves Kane and Bush in a panic, hiding the cash and forcing them to fear they have hired the wrong man. As misunderstandings multiply and Buck Helm arrives seeking his own advantage, the Kid returns to the Winters cabin with the truth and the gunpoint leverage to turn greed, deception, and revenge back on the men who tried to use him. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.