Pauite Hawk cat-walked out of the barn into the blazing noon sun, it had taken him six months to recover from being torture. But within days of regaining his feet his sixgun was flaming again having helped horse-rancher Pete Slocombe fight against gunmen hired by land-hungry John Fraser.

Twenty-four hours later, Hawk is in jail accused of murder and Slocombe is powerless against the outlaws. Just when all hope seems lost a dramatic reversal of fortune ends in a bitter gunfight that paints the Kansas moon with blood