The Great Divide Hodson

Seventy years ago, as India and Pakistan gained their independence, the region of Jammu and Kashmir also found itself partitioned, with Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Kashmir administered by Pakistan ever since. Located by the volatile Line of Control and caught in the middle of artillery barrages from both ends, Azad Kashmir was until over a decade ago one of the most closed-off territories of the world.

New Federal marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. Vindictive Ned Roden, whose son Ed was killed, still wants personal revenge, and Tim would like to escape before Ned catches up with him again. Can the marshal make it across the desert with Tim and his daughter? Even if he makes it, will justice be served?