Jess is on his way to Stratton, Texas, where he plans on spending a few days resting up and visiting with his old friend John Bodine, who is the new Sheriff in Stratton. He stops in a little no-name town where two toughs force him into a gunfight. The exchange of hot lead leaves the two men dead, but Jess notices that both men are wearing black sashes tied around their right arms. He runs into two more hard cases on his way to Stratton, and both of them are also wearing the same black sashes tied around their right arms. When Jess rides into town, his rest is quickly interrupted by some more men who are also wearing the black sashes tied around their right arms. Jess helps Bodine run them out of Stratton, but the whole matter turns deadly once Captain Lance Reagan rides into town with twenty-five heavily-armed killers to break one of their men out of the jail. Once Jess and Bodine discover what Captain Reagan's real plan is, the battle ensues and lead starts flying and a lot of innocent people start dying. Reagan turns out to be a crazed killer with a diabolical plan that Jess has to stop, but Reagan isn't going to give up easily, and neither is Jess.