Quick-Drawing, Fast-Paced Western Action From The Pen of A.R. Arrington!Cruel Creek is named because gold nuggets are plentiful in the clear waters but the two mine owners won't let anyone near. Between them they own most of the little town and, whoever they don't own, they buy. Between their money and their thugs, it's a sweet life.Until a man named "Slate" rides into town. He's a bounty hunter and an ex-prisoner and he's tougher than any four owlhoots put together. His method of "Cleaning Up" a town involves lots of gunfights, brawls, a bit of dynamite and a lot of bodies. But, then again, he gets paid for the bodies. "Dead or Alive," remember?