It started with a botched robbery. When the smoke cleared, one Kleiter brother was dead and another in handcuffs, led to the town jail by Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long. Longarm was only passing through the town of Wahoo on his way to collect a federal prisoner, when the hapless Kleiters ran afoul of the lawman.

But when the rest of the Kleiter clan load up on ammunition and coal oil to burn down the town—sparing only the local bordello—and free their kin, Longarm’s determined to scale any heights to bring these mountain folk to justice…