Deputy U.S. Marshal Gideon Hawk was respected throughout the Territory as a lawman of principle - until "Three Fingers" Ned Meade threw him a curve. Meade killed Hawk's ten-year-old boy... and the grisly act drove Hawk's grief-stricken wife to hang herself. Now, robbed of kin, Hawk sets out on a brutal quest to find the man responsible - at any cost. But the lust for revenge will change Hawk from a law-dog who abided by the rules to a wanted man...