As Hawk watched the Blackfoot warriors attack their Bannock Indian enemies, he was shocked at what he saw. The Blackfoot were attacking not in the helter-skelter Indian manner, but with an organized military precision that made them the most powerful and irresistible fighting force in the West.
Then Hawk saw the reason why. Mounted on a horse beside the Blackfoot chief Spotted Pony was a white man with a cavalry saber raised high in the air to order the Blackfoot charge.
It was James Cantrell, whom Hawk and the beautiful, voluptuous Alice Cantrell had traveled far and wide to save from Blackfoot captivity. But now it seemed that this brilliant army officer had switched sides, and Hawk had to save the West from him...