Louis Preston Trimble (2 March 1917 - 1988) was an American writer and academic. His published work included science fiction, westerns, and mysteries, as well as academic non-fiction. He generally wrote as Louis Trimble, but used the pseudonym "Stuart Brock" for some of his work.
It starts off well and I liked all of the characters. The narrative is even written well but some of the actions by the leading man, Jim Lane, makes little sense and the ending bit has quite a few eye rolling moments. Basically Lane is authorized to hunt for a man who he believes to be a killer. He receives information that says he is in a small settlement in New Mexico so he goes after him. Once there he finds the situation to be not quite what he expected and had two different factions against him for different reasons.
Can't recommend though I believe its well written and I will try more from the author. Just too many eye rolling moments for me in this one.