From verbal collision in a hotly contested "town meeting," to imprisonment in the pit of an abandoned mine, to a showdown chase to Tombstone in the Arizona Territory, Big Jim Booker needs all the grit he can muster to stand a chance against being blindsided, backstabbed, and betrayed by an old friend! Slumgullion Grit is the third in the Slumgullion trilogy, which began with Slumgullion Gold. The saga of Jim and Molly Booker continues in this tale of friendship betrayed. Big Jim Booker has been the sheriff in Lake City for almost ten years when, in the autumn of 1886, Sharkey Malone rides back into the Slumgullion country. Jealousy and a tortured obsession for vengeance set Sharkey on the path of villainous lies and cold-blooded murder--anything to destroy Booker. Poisoned by his own venom, Sharkey Malone is bent on the destruction of a good man!