Longarm has worn out his welcome...It should have been a routine prisoner pickup. But when Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long arrives in Curen Town, the young offender's father - who happens to run the town named after him - has no intentions of letting his son go to Denver for trial. When bribery and deception fail, Edward Curen, Sr., resorts to more desperate measures to stop Longarm - namely a $5,000 bounty on the lawman's head. Money like that is enough to turn decent townsfolk blood simple - and it does. Now every dark alley of Curen Town may be hiding an assassin - man, woman, or child - and if Longarm aims to leave town in one piece, he'll need to shoot his way out...