Longarm knows a pardon's no good to a man if he's six feet under... Of the many men Longarm's brought to the gallows, most proclaimed their innocence. But Neal Bird, who's set to swing for killing a shopkeeper and an Arapaho girl, might not be spinning yarns. Trouble is, his yellow lawyers have abandoned him... Something in Longarm believes Bird. So he sets out to pin the real killer. But finding the suspected cowhand who goes by Billy Boy could prove a challenge-and time's a-ticking...