Dave Kralick was a big man, heavy-boned and violent. He had to be to stay alive in the brawling, untamed Oregon territory, where every man was his own law. But even Kralick wasn t tough or shrewd enough to match the treachery of a friend. From the night his sister Judy was betrayed by the man she loved, Kralick was a man who lived only to destroy. Sworn to finding the man who had raped his sister, he was cold and ruthless -- the way a man got when he knew he either had to kill or be killed.