Louis Trimble was een Amerikaanse auteur en academicus wiens werk sciencefiction, westerns, mysteries en academische non-fictie omvatte. Zijn schrijfstijl werd gekenmerkt door boeiende verhalen en een scherpe observatie van de menselijke natuur. Trimble onderzocht thema's als maatschappelijke verandering en aanpassing, vaak gesitueerd tegen dynamische achtergronden. Zijn stilistische veelzijdigheid en genre-overstijgende aanpak maken hem tot een boeiende figuur in de Amerikaanse literatuur.
Nat Horne controlled the mining town of Stilikine. He had made Sim Kenyon deputy sheriff for the area with the promise that Kenyon, a rancher, could have the entire valley — once they drove out the smaller ranchers.
WHERE JUSTICE IS WRONG, A COLT MAKES IT RIGHT
Recuperating from a hospital stay for lung trouble, Tom Hallam, a former reporter for a San Francisco paper, had decided to take a job as a reporter on a small, rural Washington state weekly, mostly for the fresh air. Arriving in the small town of Vinson, things had been going pretty much as he had expected, excluding, of course, the woman whom he had never met that claimed to be his wife, that is until he discovered a body in his cabin. Despite the fact that the body had disappeared before the local sheriff could investigate, Hallam has founds himself in a world of trouble - Murder Trouble.
It was lucky for the inhabited glaxy that Endo was where he was-because the Bodelan Way was rapidly undermining humanity's grip on the stars-and Margil was the key to it all.
