Sixteen year old Jake Dalton, along with his best friend nineteen year old Dewy Bannock are returning from an early morning hunt when they hear gunfire coming from the direction of their wagon train encampment. Riding like the wind, they arrive at the camp to find outlaws massacring the men, women and children of the wagon train. Taking the murderous bandits by surprise, they open fire while riding through the wild melee killing many and driving off the four surviving bloodthirsty butchers. It is only then that a wounded Jake finds his mother, father and little sister shot to death, lying in a heap. He is unable to immediately pick up the chase because of his wound and that night torrential rains wipe out any trail that the fleeing murderers may have left. An anguished Jake vows that he will avenge the brutal murder of his family, but while he is and excellent shot with a rifle he is a novice with a handgun. Cooler heads among the wagon train prevail upon him to wait until he is older and better prepared or he'll just get himself killed. His friend Dewey, three years older and a dangerous man with a six shooter, promises to help him become highly skilled with a handgun and then accompany him in the pursuit of those who murdered his family. A year and a half later, Jake Dillon has grown into a man and his resolve to find those responsible for the killing of everyone that he had loved has also grown. Endless hours of practicing with his handgun has made him just possibly the fastest man in the west and that means the fastest man in the world. Together, her and Dewey Bannock set out to find and to exact revenge upon the four men who caused Jake's world to crash down around him. Their journey will take them to the worst hell holes in the west and pit them against the most dangerous scum of humanity. To find the four particular scum that they are hunting, they'll have to wade through almost every gunman, thief, rustler, hostile indian and murderer west of the Mississippi. God have mercy on those who try to oppose them.
