Publisher's Synopsis
Ry Tyler is in no doubt: he has recently seen his old friend Slim Freeman alive and kicking. So how come Freeman's grave is on Boot Hill? Tyler's search for the truth leads him into a world of intrigue and danger, where nothing is as it seems. Could the marshal and his deputy be involved, or Sadie Roundtree and the oldster Diamondback Casey? Not to mention the notorious Lassiter gang. Does the island in the middle of Green Fork River, with its decaying riverboat wreck, hold a clue to the answers?