A killer is loose in the West and nobody is more directly affected than Reuben Court, the one-time roustabout and gunman. Reuben has seen his fair share of trouble but this one hits home and hurts bad. His heartbreak is superseded by the determination to seek justice and he sets out determined to find those responsible. Why and by whom? It mystifies Reuben as he follows a trail of victims all of whom die horribly at the hands of the unknown killer and seemingly for the basest of reasons.Meanwhile his partner in the hunt is under the gun of a band of bounty hunters whose rich boss has laid such a hefty price on his head that the trackers are relentlessly determined to take him down, definitely more dead than alive.