Jed Herne, riding the vengeance trail, is hunting down Charley Howell, a former galloper with the Pony Express – the legendary mail service that had turned Jed from a callow boy into a man.Charley Howell: liar, drunk, rapist, thief and violent murderer and Kid, a cold-eyed teenage killer, had raped and murdered a banker's daughter in Wyoming. The banker hired Herne the Hunter to get them both for her brutal and blood-soaked death.