Santa Anna's Revenge is no more than a strong desert wind out of Old Mexico? Tell that to "Catfish" Charlie Tuttle as the town of Wolfwater, Texas, goes stark-raving mad . . .

As a former Texas Ranger, Catfish Charlie thought he'd seen it all. But as the town marshal, he's about to witness the West at its wildest. It starts in Julia Claire's Lone Star Outpost, with one of her girls trying to slit the throat of the notorious Niobrara Kid. Catfish has barely broken that up when there's more trouble on the third floor-and this time a man lies dead with Deputy Rex Green's girl standing over him.

Next a wounded outlaw turns up in the schoolteacher's stable, hiding from that merciless wind as well as a corrupt Deputy U.S. Marshal by the name of Wes Decker, who happens to be an old friend of Catfish. And when Catfish hears the Niobrara Kid and his gang are in possession of a cache of stolen loot, he almost wishes he'd let that soiled dove do his work for him. Now it's up to him and deputies Brazos McQueen and Rex Green to bring the ruthless outlaws to justice.

All in a day's work for the lawman-but it's going to be a long day before all this blows over . . .