内容简介：
In "Holding The Ace Card," Lou Bellanger is a gunfighter who has not seen his mother since he was a small child, when she placed him with a foster family. Now remarried, with two small children, she has hired Lou to help her in a range war. Judith's husband, Jamie Hudson, was badly beaten by men working for powerful Mexican Hat, the ranch that wants the Hudsons to sell out and surrender their vital water rights. The matter is complicated by the attempted assassination of Bob Nicol, the local sheriff, a crime that is blamed on Lou Bellanger, turning the town against both Bellanger and the Hudsons.