A prisoner in a French penal colony for twenty years, Marcel Dupr finally escapes and is quickly pronounced a threat to the French government for having written a memoir of his years in the French Foreign Legion. Wells Fargo employee Jay McGraw is given the task of locating Dupre and the manuscript and getting them safely to New York. Meanwhile the French have dispatched a gang of cutthroats to make sure the manuscript never sees the light of day . . .