A struggling rancher turned manhunter finds vengeance more rewarding than dollars in this Western adventure.

Times are hard for the Curtin clan. Farming and raising cattle don't bring in enough money, and payments on the ranch are due.

Sam Curtin is the best there is with a six-shooter-and there are more wanted men than the law can handle. To save the ranch, Curtin brings ruthless criminals to justice-dead or alive. He becomes known far and wide as The Judge, a bounty hunter who will outdraw any man for a fair reward.

But when his own brother is stabbed to death, there's more than money at stake.

This time the bounty is revenge, in Doug Bowman's Sam Curtin.

Doug Bowman was a Grand Ole Opry performer who came from an established family of country singers. He was the author of The Quest of Jubal Kane, The Guns of Billy Free, and The H&R Cattle Company-all from Forge books. He passed away in the summer of 2000.