Dime novelist William Hackett hires Joe Hades to lead him into an icy slaughterhouse to gain a story about the notorious outlaw, Dexter Peppers. What Hackett doesn't know, though, is that they are to run into a bloodthirsty gang of outlaws, savage Apache warriors, and every other horror imaginable as they make their way across the frozen earth.
Hackett is doing it for the notoriety such a book will garner him and Hades is doing it for the $1000 being offered... But is dying worth a single penny? Hades doesn't have the answer to that, yet, but he will by the time they reach the hellhole that is Crow's Peak...