Someone gut-shot Sughrue in New Mexico and left him to live with his demons, running naked in the blood-red desert sunset and loving the only woman who has ever managed to love him. Someone took all the money In Milodragovitch's daddy's will, leaving Milodragovitch with just a two-thousand-dollar Italian silk suit and a Cadillac El Dorado - and a hard-on for retribution.

Now, Sughrue and Milodragovitch, two of the most hard-bitten cases the West ever produced, have come together in El Paso for a death trip across a country called Texas, to a state of mind called revenge.

For Milodragovitch, It's a matter of finding the banker who absconded with his inheritance. For Sughrue, it's all about confronting the man who set him up for target practice. And for both, it's a case that revolves around a ranch house in Austin where two people were tortured to death - and a luxurious, cocaine-dusted death trap near the Mexican border.