In the old south west, there was only one thing worse than a renegade Indian, and that was a renegade white man. And when that white man was a deserter from the army, when he was shrewd and revengeful and merciless, and when he added military tactics to the natural band of Mescalero Apaches, the results were deadly. As our story opens Todd Harleson, former corporal in the United States cavalry, is riding at the head of some twenty Apaches down a canyon trail, toward an isolated ranch house. It is just before dark...