Color illustration on front cover of four superimposed vignettes: head portrait of man with scar on his proper left cheek wearing a black western hat; man wearing brown shirt and bandana and black pants embracing a woman wearing blue dress; street scene with a masked man firing a pistol at another man; masked man on horseback in front of a building holding a pistol in his proper right hand with another man walking away from him.

After shooting a man in Denver in self-defense, the Gunsmith becomes tangled in a web of crooked lawmen and stolen loot, but all he really wants to do is make time with beautiful Jeanette Colvin.

There's a bounty out on Clint Adams. The reward is $2,500 dollars. The option is "dead or alive". The only thing the Gunsmith doesn't know is who wants to bury him --- or why. And finding out is going to make him a sitting target ...

Clint Adams is lured to the small town of Bended Knee, Arkansas, a place run by the Cahill clan, a family whose pariarch was a career outlaw, and finds himself threatened by an all-out showdown with several of the most famous gunmen in the West.