In this brand-new, suspenseful Ralph Compton Western, a reformed
gambler races to unmask a murderer.
After years as a professional gambler--and a deadly shootout on a
riverboat casino--Tom Calvert and his young protégé, Asher Smith, have
survived an arduous journey across the frontier to Friendly Field,
Idaho. The bucolic Quaker community welcomes them with open arms, and
soon Tom is courting a widow and learning, to his surprise, to enjoy the
quiet life.
Then an elder of Friendly Field is found murdered, and the townsfolk
start whispering about the work of the devil. Tom doesn't believe in the
devil, just the evil that men do, and he resolves to solve the gruesome
crime before fear causes the people of peaceful little Friendly Field to
turn against one another.