Résumé (jaquette) : Jericho, Texas, 1931. And a new bredd of gunfighter haunts the windswept border town...
Tweed-suited mobsters from Chicago who control the illegal flow of liquor crossing the Mexican border. Jericho's two rival gangs have replaced civil law with civil war and Sheriff Galt is powerless to stop them.
Then, a mysterious stranger blows into town, looking for a place to spend the night. Calling himself Smith, he seems like just another drifter, that is, until he drews his gun. Then, all hell is let loose.
Soon he has been recruited by first one gang and the the other, as he cleverly and deceptively betrays both sides in a war than can leave only one man standing...