With the closing of the Harlan County coal mines, marijuana has become a big cash crop. A hundred pounds can gross $300,000, but that's chump change compared to the quarter million a human body can bring in-especially when it's sold piece by piece.

When dope-dealing brothers Dickie and Coover Crowe decide to branch out into the body business, they enter the cross-hairs of laconic, Stetson wearing, fast-drawing Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. Dark and droll, Raylan is pure Elmore Leonard-a page turner filled with the sparkling dialogue and sly suspense that are the hallmarks of this modern master.