Tim Holt #24

When outlaw bands across half a state rise up to free "Lightning Larry" Lewis from custody, Deputy Sheriff Tim Holt must transport his dangerous prisoner to trial while fending off waves of desperate rescuers—from a dynamite trap on the rails to a final showdown at the outlaws' mountain hideout. With Sheriff Gage wounded and the honest folk of Bullet counting on him, Tim relies on cunning and grit to keep Lewis headed toward justice, even as the odds stack against him at every turn. A tense frontier tale of one lawman's determination against impossible odds.

When Tim Holt and his sidekick Chito Gonzales discover a mysterious book of magic tricks and an odd gun in the foothills, Chito can't resist trying his hand at prestidigitation—much to Tim's misgivings. Their plans to reach town with the cattle sale proceeds take a dangerous turn when two crooks, Jeb and Hook, attempt a robbery, and Chito's newfound magic skills unexpectedly come into play in ways neither of them anticipated. It turns out there's more to those tricks than sleight of hand when the stakes are this high.

Deputy Sheriff Tim Holt takes a bullet during a stagecoach robbery and wakes up with no memory of who he is—but he's picked up a mysterious concha that might just be the key to tracking down the Mesa Gang. Working undercover as a hired hand at the Checkerboard Ranch, Tim enters the local rodeo to earn the trust of the outlaws, unaware that his old horse Lightning is about to blow his cover wide open. It's a clever con wrapped in a western showdown, where a man with a blank slate becomes the last person anyone expects to restore order to outlaw country.