Daco Ward is a drifter with just seventy cents in his pants' pocket when Bill Dodds offers him a job. But Dodds has a way of making enemies. He bests Tucker Lankton at cards and Lankton, backed by his sidekick Ed Crants, vows to get even.And Daco too didn't like the feeling that Dodds had made a fool of him. A man couldn't walk away from such things. He had a score to settle.Now Daco would find himself in the middle of a deadly game of deceit and murder; the prize being the riches of Silveroo.