After a 10-year prison term for killing a man he'd found molesting a girl, all Tom Jericho wants a quiet life. But the State Governor offers him a deal: the notorious Crane Gang are planning something big, and the governor wants to know what it is. Jericho has befriended the youngest of the Crane boys in the pen and, with Lee now being transported across the desert, all Jericho has to do is help him escape, infiltrate the gang and uncover the plan. Before he knows it, Jericho is in Mexico.