Jess is back on the trail, hunting for Saul Green, when he comes across a cattle ranch run by Loretta McIntire. She offers him a job chasing rustlers off her land, but he turns it down.
While there, he meets a high-priced gun for hire, Raif Wood. He’s looking to get hired on as Loretta’s personal bodyguard. Jess joins them for lunch and then leaves to go back on the hunt for Green.
When he takes Green’s body to the town of Clinton to turn in to the law for the bounty, he discovers that Lorretta has been brutally murdered and Raif Wood took a bullet in his shoulder trying to protect her.
Jess goes after the four killers and Wood goes along with him even though he’s wounded. Once that problem is resolved, he happens upon another tragedy and meets a man by the name of Jimmy.
Another hunt begins, but it doesn’t end the way Jess thought it would.
Jess is back on the hunt for more vicious killers. His first target is Howard McClure. He ends up in Clayton, Texas, where he talks to McClure’s brother Doug.
Meanwhile, he is still trying to figure out who paid the man called Jackal five thousand dollars up front to kill him back in Ludlow, Texas.
To complicate things even more, some unknown person is trailing him. When he finally confronts McClure out in his camp on the trail, the unknown person kills McClure with a headshot from a distance even Jess might not be able to make.
As he continues his hunt for wanted men, another hired killer confronts him, hired by the same shadowy figure hiding in the background. Before Jess kills him, he gives Jess some information that might help him figure out who is behind it all.
As he continues to dodge bullets and killers, he races to find out who is putting up the private bounty on his head.
He finds help in a very unlikely person.
Jess is on the hunt for Griff Euler. Along the way, he meets a man by the name of Mace Lovitt. Unsure if he’s a threat or not, he contacts his friend, Deputy United States Marshal Frank Reedy, to find out.
He learns that Lovitt is a former Texas Ranger on the hunt for the two men who murdered his wife. He helps Lovitt track down the men responsible, but the task isn’t easy. They fled to Mexico after the murder. Jess has to figure out how to make them come back across the border to Texas. He finds a way, but he must risk his life to get it done.
As difficult as that task was, Jess receives a wire from Wildcat, the female bounty hunter out of New Mexico Territory. She has chased a vicious killer all the way from the territory into Texas, but has lost his trail and needs help locating him.
They team up again and go on the hunt for her prey. Wildcat has made some new enemies in Texas, and they’re determined to stop her.
Jess is on the trail of Ivan Bush, which takes him to the town of Bravo, Texas. On his way, he meets a widow by the name of Penny, who lives outside of town. He befriends her and stays in her place for the night.
After he leaves Bravo, he discovers that two outlaws robbed Penny and beat her to within an inch of her life. He returns to Bravo and arranges for her to be taken care of before heading out on the hunt for the two men who committed the crime.
Then, a United States senator is murdered and the president of the United States offers a five-thousand-dollar reward. Jess goes after the man who killed him.
Along the way, he meets another bounty hunter who wants in on the hunt…but he’s not the only one.