Astride his gelding, Deputy Ben Houston made a solitary silhouette riding the stark plains of Kansas. Ahead of him in the vast country rode a gang of murderous outlaws who had slashed their savage way from Montana to Wyoming to Colorado, and now they were shooting up Kansas. Where would the killers strike next? Soon they would have to make a slip-up, and Ben had to be there, anticipating their every move, in order to stop them ...

Genesis was a peaceful place that was prospering. John Fontana, a capable marshal, had no trouble preventing lawlessness until a strange, unkempt group of men rode into town - and one of them was in fact Fontana's own brother. After the killing, raping, and plundering, Genesis was peaceful no more. The men rode out of town, but there was no doubt that revenge had to be taken for all the men who had died and all the women who had suffered.