"Nearly starved missing half a leg Beau Boone stumbles out of a cattle car into the hell-on-wheels Transcontinental Railroad town of Nemesis and into gunsmoke and battle to rival that of the war he's just escaped. Mr. Pettigrew and Miss Alice of the Angel Cloud Saloon befriend him and soon he's sitting shotgun in the middle of a smaller but equally deadly conflict. And its a war no one can win."--