Lizard Skin Author:Carsten Stroud Sergeant Beau McAllister of the Montana State Highway Patrol has a formidable service record, an engaging wit and a quick trigger finger. In the vast lonely grandeur of Yellowstone County Beau knows the potential for human cruelty and ugliness is always there, coiled in silent waiting like rattlesnake in an arroyo. — Violence touches Beau's life ... more »on a slow Friday aftenoon. He checks out a reported armed robber at Joe Bell's truck stop and finds an amazing shootout in progress between an enraged Joe Bell and a band of Dakota Indians, firing back with bows and arrows. When the smoke clears, a Dakota boy is dead, Beau has been forced to shoot Joe Bell in the butt, and Beau's own problems with the law have just begun.« less