The Comanche and Kiowa are painting for war in the Texas Panhandle. The US Army is preparing to stop them - but it needs horses to do so. Lots of horses. Walt Ames knows where to find them, and breeding stock for his horse ranch, too. All he has to do is ride down to Mexico, buy them, and bring them back safely. That's easier said than done.
He and his men will have to cover more than two thousand brutally hard miles, and deal with Indian raiders, Comanchero renegades, bandidos, and would-be horse thieves... not to mention a certain Irish-Mexican redheaded beauty who can make him forget everything else in the emerald glow of her eyes. Walt's going to need every ounce of his grit and determination, plenty of firepower, and a lot of luck if he's to convert the gold in his pockets to gold on the hoof.