Manhunter Jim McGuire hangs up his gun to live quietly in White Ridge. But when his young charge, Billy Jameson, is wrongly accused of murder, the only way to prevent Billy's hanging is to help corrupt Mayor Jake Nixon. He's assigned to find fugitive Barney Dale, the only witness to a murder Nixon had committed - little knowing that when he finds him, hired guns will kill them both. The manhunter becomes the hunted - can Jim defeat Nixon's guns?