After a year as an Arizona Ranger, Sam Burrack has learned that, in the harsh Old West, people come three ways: good, bad, and dead. Without that frontier wisdom, he'd never survive as he trails the Ganston Gang, who have rampaged across the state and killed a fellow Ranger.

But the chase turns even deadlier when one of the gang, wounded and on the run, takes a young teenager named Billy Odle with him. Now Burrack must stay ahead of a posse of ruthless militiamen for whom murder equals justice, find the wanted man to satisfy his own sense of duty, and fight to save the life - and the soul - of a boy on the road to hell...