Crack Western #64

Two-Gun Lil rolls into Perdita, a town held hostage by the card sharp Gird and his gang of outlaws who've run off every marshal brave enough to wear the star—until she decides to wear it herself for a single, defiant hour. When a member of Gird's crew claims to have switched sides, Lil must figure out who she can trust while facing down a man who's made it clear he'll do anything to keep the law out of his territory. It's a showdown that will test whether one woman with twin pistols and raw nerve can break Gird's iron grip on a town that's been lost to lawlessness.

A sickly drifter from back East arrives in Dead Canyon Center so weakened he can barely stand—but when the local bully Bully Pawker pushes him too far, the tenderfoot surprises everyone with unexpected mettle. Sheriff Riley takes him under his wing as a deputy, teaching him the ways of the West, and when bank robbers led by a masked gunman strike town and wound the sheriff, the young man must discover whether his newfound grit is enough to face down desperadoes.

When a rancher named Snake Sallust puts a $5,000 bounty on Marshal Bob Allen's head, a hired gun named Trone arrives in town ready to collect—but the marshal has other plans. Allen stages his own death to draw out Sallust and his conspirators, then moves to expose the whole scheme before it's too late. It's a clever trap that puts law and order back on solid ground in a frontier town teetering on the edge of corruption.