Four Color #648

In the lawless borderlands of Cahoga and Mesa Counties, Will Fife has long exploited the gap between two jurisdictions to stay beyond the reach of the law—until now. When he’s accused of smuggling and murder, sheriffs Pearson and Morgan are sent to sort out the tangled lines of justice, but the real trouble may lie not in the law, but in the man who’s been playing both sides all along.

In the stark, sun-baked frontier of 1955, Jo Pearson’s routine visit to a state penitentiary takes a sudden, dangerous turn when three convicts attempt an escape. Moments after leaving the prison, Jo discovers one of them has been hiding in the back seat of his car—then, in a brutal twist, the man swaps clothes, knocks Jo unconscious, and vanishes into the desert.