All over the Midwest, cars and trucks were crashing--stopped in their tracks by an inexplicable force Had some unseen power targeted America's automotive industry--or was something more sinister at stake? Summoned to solve the mystery, Doc Savage and his intrepid men follow a trail of terror that winds through the continental United States like a constricting serpent of senseless destruction. From the nation's car capital to the North Pole, the Man of Bronze races to stave off a strangely familiar menace only to confront a completely unexpected foe--the enigmatic Baron in Black

A popular and enthusiastic guide to the major continuing western hero characters of the American pulp magazine era, complete with bibliography, index, and illustrations of pulp covers, and with a new introduction by well-known Western writer, Ryerson Johnson.