Book excerpt: Hunt returns from training and takes over the U.S. Marshal office in Denver, and finds a large stack of complaints that need to be handled. First, Hunt sends two good men, Jed and Earl to New Mexico to track down bank robbers. Then he sends three Marshals to the mines to handle three robbers that have the miners pinned down with gunfire. Hunt assigns two men to intercept an angry rancher that has organized a posse to track down cattle thieves, and Hunt wants to make sure they don't lynch innocent people in the process. Hunt sends two men to Utah to settle down a community that has gone crazy with gunfire and fighting after the sheriff has been found murdered. Three men break out of prison that were sentenced after Hunt captured them, and are coming to Denver to kill Hunt. Hunt receives permission to add two new U.S. Deputy Marshals and recruits two men that most feel are very unlikely candidates.