Behind Jess Dreer are the law and a hangman's noose; ahead, bounty hunters' guns waiting to cut him down. Since avenging his father's murder, Jess has followed a lone outlaw's trail for over a thousand miles. So far he has eluded Sheriff Caswell, but now that a girl has asked him to do her a favor, the odds are impossible: to ride alone into the jaws of a trap; to find and destroy a hired gunslinger; to get away alive afterward. With no chance to win, Jess takes the gamble.

"Desperate men and the gun code they lived by: sure-fire ingredients for an action-packed tale of the old West." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)