"Sometimes you gotta kill one person early on to avoid killing four or five later." This advice from Virgil Cole causes lookout Everett Hitch to draw on and kill Resolution's town tough guy, Koy Wickman, a hired gun employed by Greed copper mine owner, Eamon O'Malley. Hitch's job is to provide security for Amos Wolfson's Blackfoot Saloon, but in a town without a lawman, he becomes the go-to person for all in trouble. Virgil Cole shows up in Resolution after killing a man who accosted Allison French. The man refused to draw so Virgil broke the rules of being a lawman and shot the man. Now he is a gun for hire. When Wolfson realized that power has shifted from him to Hitch and Cole, and that they are men of integrity and scruples, he brings in more hired guns and invites Cole and Hitch to leave. This is a continuation of the story begun in Appaloosa and is continued in Brimstone. A bit slow in parts, but downright engaging in others, it should appeal to fans of Wild West lore.
"It's better to be feared than loved." Machiavelli
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