Sheriff of Tombstone #6

When a series of orchestrated robberies plague Tombstone, the Sheriff goes undercover in State Prison to get the captured criminals to talk about their mysterious mastermind boss. He discovers that Fanning, a cunning criminal, is pulling the strings from behind the scenes—and has just been arrested himself with forged papers. Now locked in the same prison, Luke must stay alive long enough to stop Fanning's plan to silence his accomplices and escape justice.

A lawman's legacy unfolds in this tale of Uncle Billy Tilghman, a legendary sheriff who spent over fifty years enforcing justice across the Wild West—from apprehending the notorious Bill Doolin without firing a shot to facing down the dangerous gunslinger Bill Raidler. This story celebrates one of the greatest lawmen the frontier ever knew, a man whose decades of service proved that sometimes a badge and nerves of steel were mightier than any gun.

When Sheriff Luke Spade warns retired Captain Bolling that keeping a fortune in gold is risky, the stubborn officer dismisses him—but soon after, the gold is stolen, and Luke finds himself tracking two suspiciously flush ex-guards and a saloon owner named Pete Hardin. Luke's investigation leads him to uncover an inside job, with the truth hidden deeper than anyone in Tombstone expected. By the time he gets too close to the answers, Luke learns the hard way that some thieves are willing to silence a nosy lawman permanently.

A mysterious gunslinger named Clay McCord rides into the lawless town of Buckhorn, hired to drive out the Bannock gang and restore order—but the town's respectable citizens grow uneasy when they uncover his own violent past. When Bannock returns with his hardcases for a final showdown, McCord proves his worth in a brutal confrontation, only to discover that cleaning up a town and belonging to it are two very different things.

Sheriff Luke Spade confronts Zip Armen, a freshly released convict bent on revenge against the judge who sentenced him years ago—but Armen has brought hired help and a scheme that reaches beyond personal vengeance. When the outlaw's plan forces a deadly showdown a hundred feet above ground, Luke discovers that winning isn't always about who draws fastest.