Tabor Evans is the author of the long-running Longarm western series, featuring the adventures of Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long.

Longarm busts up a smuggling ring… Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long's been sent down El Paso way to break up a smuggling ring dealing in human cargo-Chinese laborers. Going undercover using the alias Nathan James, Longarm waits for his moment to catch the smugglers red-handed crossing the Rio Grande. While in town, Longarm is befriended by a brother and sister. Bob Temple is a one-armed man who wants "Nathan James" to give him a hand in a bank robbery south of the border. His lonely sister Bobbi has other plans for Longarm…which won't require him to wear his gun belt.