Known to everyone as the King of Crazy River, Big Vink Thorpe certainly looked like a king. Tall, handsome, open-hearted, a true cattleman of the old type, he was known and liked throughout the Crazy River country. But one night he was found dead, still clutching a poker hand -- three aces and two eights -- of sinister significance. Rance Duncan, the murdered man's foreman, was determined to avenge Thorpe's death. And circumstances forced him to play...