Members of the Red Rock Raiders have been vanishing, and the surviving gang members have decided that the town of Hickstown is responsible. Their response is organized and merciless: the entire town taken hostage, the valley filling with their threats and the sound of people calling for someone to do something. The renowned Arizona Ranger rides in with his iron and his reputation to untangle the situation from the Sheriff's hands. The depth of what is waiting for him inside this particular problem is something he has not yet begun to guess at.