Forsman had had more than his fair share of trouble. His partner had bushwhacked him, taken his gold and his wife and left him for dead. Then he met Montana Abbott, a quiet man whose gun did the talking for him. When Forsman's enemies started gunning for him, Montana fought back. And when Montana fights, a whole lot of people get killed.

Born in Great Falls, Montana, on July 25th 1899, "Al Cody" was a pseudonym of Archie Lynn Joscelyn. Joscelyn went on to become an enormously prolific and popular writer, especially in the western field, but also authoring a number of novels in the detective and romance genres along the way. In addition to the books he wrote under his own name and that of Cody, Archie Joscelyn also used the names A A Archer, Tex Holt, Evelyn McKenna and Lynn Westland.