John Wesley Hardin`s powderkeg temper earned him 12 bodies by age 20, and a place at the top of the Texas most-wanted list. But now he`s a husband and a father and thinks that his fighting days are done--until he`s ambushed by an angry loser in a local poker game. Soon the law is on Wes` trail again, but this time he`s got too much at stake. Hardin only wants peace--but he`s willing to wage a one-man war to stay free.