A wandering library team—“Big and Thick Friend”—keeps its establishment funded by the capture and handing over to justice books that contain secrets of other people’s crimes. To survive here, on the frontier, you must shoot accurately, negotiate carefully, and understand what it’s truly worth dying for. The last question is exactly what arises for the crew of Thick Drew when the library carelessly accepts an order to capture an extremely crafty will—apparently someone who recently killed the owner of that will.