Montana Abbott had seen too much blood-running in his day to tangle with any more trouble. But assassination from ambush was not something he could look away from. There's an old Western saying that "the tail dies at sundown"?meaning that no matter when a rattlesnake is killed, it never fully expires until the setting of the sun. And Montana knew that that drunken killer would strike again!

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.