When the life of a Colorado state senator is threatened, Longarm is half convinced it's the work of a harmless crackpot. Until someone plants a knife in his partner's back...Seems that the angry would-be assassin has a beef with the senator. He claims the man shot a captured rebel way back around the battle of Glorieta's Pass. The senator swears it never happened. But once Longarm gets on the case, the truth comes out--in a hailstorm of blazing lead...