Deputy U.S. Marshal Gideon Hawk was respected throughout the Territory as a lawman of principle--until Three Fingers Ned Meade threw him a curve. Meade killed Hawk"s ten-year-old boy, and the grisly act drove Hawk"s grief-stricken wife to hang herself. Now, robbed of kin, Hawk sets out on a brutal quest to find the man responsible--at any cost.