When his friend Sally, who has traveled to the silver-mining town of Goth, Colorado, to open a restaurant with a friend, is caught in the crossfire during a robbery, Smoke Jenson, fueled by revenge and armed with a gun and a badge, hunts down a gang of outlaws, only to be caught in a deadly trap.

There were some who knew Smoke Jensen as a hero...and there were others who believed the dark side of the legend that he was an outlaw who'd killed over 300 men. But when Smoke wakes up with a gut-wrenching headache in a New Mexico jail cell, he feels as helpless as a newly whelped cougar cub with a lease on his life shorter than the blink of an eye. Somehow, Smoke's got to make it out and escape the hid-hungry lynch mob that's after him for a murder...