This is the seventh book in an eight book series that consists of the adventures of a small-time pimp, conman and occasional killer who finds himself traveling the Old West trying for the easy life and experiencing one adventure after another. This time he becomes involved in a plot to kill the president and has the entire US Government and the Pinkerton Detective Agency after him. Does that stop him, though? Well, no: there will be an eighth book. And God knows what he'll have to face in it. These books are the most exciting westerns you'll ever read and probably the only ones where the hero doesn't carry a gun, hates horses and spends almost all of his time with prostitutes. But, hell, the writer is a former parole officer. What would you expect?