Slumped in a chair, Sheriff Joe Hayes looked out of his office window to the city square where business places were just beginning to open for the day. The lawman, grown grey during service, was exhausted after a hard night on the trail, but neither age or fatigue weighed on him as heavily as failure. Once again, he had been outwitted by the Five Numbers, a gang of outlaws whose name derived from their habit of dressing one another as numerals...