Johnny Cato's life was hanging by a thread. At any moment, Tris Griffin, a madman obsessed with revenge, could simply snuff him out. The only way to keep Johnny alive was for his partner, Yancey Bannerman, to sacrifice himself. So Yancey rode toward a valley called Powderhorn and a showdown he knew he couldn't hope to win.
In the meantime, Johnny was forced to create an all-new weapon for Griffin ... a weapon he intended to use on Yancey himself!
And as if things weren't already complicated enough, Governor Dukes' daughter, Kate, found herself struggling to survive a-foot, and without water, in a harsh desert.
None of them had a hope in hell of surviving ... but if they were going to die, they were determined to take Griffin down with them!