The bank's been robbed, two men are dead, and there's a reward on the head of a mountain man called Kriker. Leo Guild is just as eager as anyone to collect the bounty. But he also knows - from personal experience - the law's been wrong before. He wants to hear Kriker's side of the story. So he sets off through the icy wilderness to track his quarry - and soon realizes that in this case the law and the truth are not on the same side.