The story is really an examination in the human struggle to gain and maintain control of emotions and fears, with Slaughter as its main subject. As is usually the case, no one in his circle of friends and colleagues sees any weakness in him his feelings of weakness are singularly personal. His fear of failure and insecurity disgust him so thoroughly that he often over reacts, puffing out and over compensating for the weak behavior. Slaughter (another winner for best character name ever used) is driven by the need to control himself and his surroundings. Slaughter must learn the connection before the town boils over into mayhem with the townspeople either quickly going mad or bent on murder. Theese unusual crimes bear an unusual connection to a 1960's hippie commune, long thought defunct. But then ranchers began to find their cattle killed and mutilated and a young boy, bitten by a raccon, vicisouly attacks his mother, biting and ripping at her throat like a wild animal.
His job leaves him mostly chasing down the town drunk and dogs that bark all night. Fleeing from a nervous breakdown and the insecurity that followed, Slaughter fails at raising horses in the mountain town and then accepts the Chief job, more to compensate for his own fears than anything else. Nathan Slaughter, a hard-edged, burned-out cop from Detroit, has been the Chief of Police in Potter's Field, Wyoming, ever since he was shot in a liqour store robbery.
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