The year is 2117. In the farthest reaches of Earth’s territorial space, a spree of depraved murders offers local cattle ranchers fearing because of their families. A fear, they will shortly discover, that is a lot more than justified.

Evidently, John Gallic’s reputation proceeded his arrival towards the fringe-world of Muleshoe. A popularity suggesting he be given a broad berth. As the new Territory Abettor, commonly known as a Frontier Marshal, Gallic will be there for the long term.

Formally titled about Galaxy Man Detective Main Inspector of the Spatial Colonial Police-District 22-he’d investigated only the highest profile murders and was a rising star within the department. But that existence was before. Gallic now provided a variety of backwater police services towards the burgeoning deep-space frontier territories. Sure, there is an intermittent smalltime crime to investigate, but more often than not Gallic spent his days-commissioned from the big Interstellar banks-repossessing billionaire ranchers’ high-priced spacecraft. A glorified repo man. He was good with that. It gave him spare time to do the one thing more essential than anything else-find the murderer of his wife and kid.