When Jake Cutter sets out to track down the Comancheros who kidnapped six-year-old Mikey Brock, better than anyone, he is well aware that deadly Kiowa and Pawnee ambushes and sudden death at the hands of scavengers await him around every boulder and along every creek of the Santa Fe Trail.His dogged pursuit takes him from the head of the dust-choking Trail to the rugged Sangre d' Cristos and down to the menacing Sierra Madres of Mexico. There he finds the man responsible for the kidnapping is no other than his own brother whom he believed killed in the massacre that had orphaned him twenty years earlier.The two brothers find themselves in the middle of chilling danger and blazing gunfire.