Hank Brazos had served under Colonel Orson Clairborne during the war. So when their paths crossed again, he was delighted to meet up with his old commanding officer. Their reunion was cut short, however, when the Colonel was kidnapped, and his beautiful daughter, Angela, received a ransom demand for twenty thousand dollars. For Brazos, the course was clear. He had to save Clairborne and make sure the kidnappers paid for their crime. But his partner, Duke Benedict, had other ideas. The only thing that mattered to Benedict was finding Bo Rangle, the man they’d already spent months searching for. Rangle’s guerilla outfit had massacred their men in a savage ambush in the closing days of the war, and not only did he want revenge, he also wanted a share of the $200,000 Rangle had gotten away with. So Brazos and Benedict went their own separate ways … and quickly discovered that one of them was no damn’ good without the other.