Jack Lennox had run away from everything - wife, job, home - and hadn't stopped until he came to Cuenca Seco, a tiny desert town miles form anywhere. There, he thought, he might be able to rest, to get his bearings. But then he saw a murder take place - and the murderers saw him. So Jack Lennox was on the run again, this time into the desert wilderness where temperatures soared above 150 degrees in the parching sun. A beautiful woman tried to help him, only to become a murder target herself.