Escondrijo is a quiet town on the Texas coast, so Custis Long isn't expecting trouble when he heads there on his newest assignment: to escort a prisoner to Colorado. He soon finds that it's easier said than done, because a couple of trigger-happy...
James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the Kid, is an enforcer, a "ghost rider" for the Maceo brothers, Rosario and Sam, rulers of "the Free State of Galveston," who are prospering through illicit pleasures in the midst of the Great Depression....