The Negro hung from the flaming cross and watched. In front of his burning cabin the white-robed figures of the Ku Klux Klan repeatedly raped his wife. Then came Jubal Cade to spit death from his .30 caliber Spencer...When they post the reward for the capture of the Klan's Grand Dragon, bounty-hunters flood into St Louis. But Jubal Cade is there before them. He has seen the Klan's savagery firsthand. And Jubal is a man who knows all about vengeance.

Raised in a Chicago foundling home, Jubal Cade went to England to learn medicine and returned to his native land with a wife and a dream.But a cruel world sets little store by dreams and as Jubal moved westwards he found himself on a killing trail. Violence stalked him every foot of the way and sudden death lurked close to every campsite. The harsh reality of flying fists and whining bullets shattered the dream and Jubal was forced to acknowledge the truth about himself.With sparkling white snow stained by the ghastly red of blood, the final tattered remnants of the dream were ripped away—although he had been taught to heal, his destiny was to kill.

The killing trail winds on for Jubal Cade, trained doctor and deadly sharpshooter. The hunt for the scar-faced man who killed his wife takes him through Laredo, to the Mexican mountains where Roberto Blanco and his gang of marauders have their hideout. Word is that Blanco's chief henchman is El Cicatriz—'the scar-faced one'. A man who enjoys cold-blooded murder.Can it be that the long quest for vengeance is nearly over for the fastest doctor in the West?

Strangers aren't that welcome in the Sierra Mogollon of New Mexico, but Jubal Cade is no ordinary stranger. Ace marksman and skilled medico, he's a handy guy to have around when bullets are flying and blood begins to flow. And it flows fast when Apache braves raid the Salt River mining township. That suits the deadly doctor just fine. For the redskins are led by scar-faced Lee Kincaid. And Kincaid killed Jubal's wife...

It's a hard, dusty haul from Wichita to the hick burg of Rawson. But Jubal Cade, ace medic, ace marksman, would ride to the ends of the earth to catch up with a certain gentleman. A big man who handles twin Colts real mean. A man with a four inch scar across his forehead. The man who gunned down Jubal's wife. And when the deadly doctor gets Scarface Kincaid in his sights, he's going to splatter his guts across the entire wide, wild West...

Heading east for Missouri on the Union Pacific railroad, Jubal Cade hits the peaceful little mountain community of Jamestown just after the Coley boys. And when the gunsmoke has cleared, there's not much left except a ruined train and thirty or more butchered bodies, turning the drifting winter snow crimson with their life-blood. Reason enough for the quick-drawing medic to forget his private vendetta for a while. Reason for Cade to ride south towards the brutal badlands on a trail of violence he knows will lead him straight to a bloody duel with death...

Blood stains the snows in tiny religious Montana township of Hope; the Jacob ten Eyck gang seizes it, brutally raping the women and massacring any men who fight back. Then a smallpox outbreak strikes and man of medicine Jubal Cade brings them through—only to turn ruthless avenging angel on the ten Eyck gang. And the bounty road lies drenched in blood for all those who cross the deadly doctor...

St. Louis, gateway to the west and springboard of dreams—for those who had them. Fate had shattered what Jubal Cade had hoped for, killing his new wife and thrusting a blind orphan boy on him. So he came to St. Louis as a realist, not a dreamer. Needing money to help young Andy Prescott and, more desperately, to finance his search for Mary's killer, Jubal Cade was a man with a gun for hire.Ben Agnew offered him money to take a package to Cheyenne. It was a long ride and death dogged his tracks, from outlaws and from the Sioux. But it was Jubal who dispensed death, spilling the blood of white and red men alike.A doctor whom destiny had decreed should kill instead of heal. Danger was his companion all the way to Cheyenne, and disappointment awaited him there. Sooner or later Jubal had to face the nightmare of a ghastly double cross.

Death stalks Jubal Cade on the peaceful streets of St Louis.He has come East to visit Andy, the blind orphan he had sworn to care for, in the prestigious Lenz Clinic.For a short while, life seems good again, and the sharp-shooting medico lowers his guard. Just long enough for a cold-blooded gunman to get him on the wrong end of a rifle barrel.And when Jubal recovers from his near-fatal wounds, he discovers that Andy has been snatched — to killing-ground of Kansas, where ghost towns echo with the nerve-tearing agony of violent death...

Traveling through the winter snows of Cheyenne country, Jubal Cade is a man with vengeance on his mind. But when he saves an Indian from the brutality of some buffalo hunters, he has to forget his private war. Now he is involved in the red man's war against the avaricious buffalo killers who are ravaging the Indians' traditional hunting grounds. It seems that only Jubal can make peace between the sides. Make peace or watch the snows stain crimson with blood...

Jubal Cade is no stranger to violent death. But sometimes a man needs to wash the blood from his hands. Do a little doctoring. Earn a little money. Rest up from the quest for vengeance that is his life. But with a bounty hunter like Mort Gannon on his tail, just itching to blast his guts all the way El Paso, there's no way a man can rest. In the savage, unruly lands of Mexico, Jubal cannot hope to cheat his destiny - or escape the bitter taste of ashes and blood!

Riding through New Mexico, bound for St Louis, Jubal Cade comes upon the remains of a bushwhacked wagon train. And the promise he makes to the last, dying survivor places the deadly doctor at the heart of the strangest mystery he has yet encountered in the savage West. A mystery that takes him through gambling joints and prison cells, to a trek across the bone-bleached flats of the Great Salt Lake, to a weird friendship with a one-legged old-timer and his murderous mastiff. And over it all hangs the specter of an albino general who believes that the Civil War is not yet over...