"An unidentified body hanging from a tree puts bounty hunter Matt Crowder on the trail to solve the mysteries of who and why. The manhunt takes Crowder along trails and rails through mountains and deserts, towns and cities, where danger looms in the dark. The chase is complicated by uncooperative lawmen and lurking outlaws alike, and gunplay awaits Crowder around every corner. Corruption related to the hanging man leads the manhunter on a dangerous chase into the Mexican deserts, and the threat of sudden death meets him there. Calling on tracking skills honed during his years wearing the badge of a Deputy United States Marshal, Matt Crowder follows wherever the trail leads in pursuit of justice for the hanging man"--