The Serpent's Head

A hired gun delivers frontier justice on a colony world.

The man called Twelve is a hired gun, taking his laser pistol from planet to planet, hiring his services out to the highest bidder.

He finds himself on Glycon-Prime, a new colony at the edge of space. On the hunt for work, Twelve blows into a small, frontier town-only to find a massacre.

The only survivors? A trio of young children, devastated by the murder of their families. They are hellbent on hiring the gunslinger to get revenge on...