Incident at Lajatis

Gunfighter Clay Maxwell wants nothing more than to be left alone to live his life in Del Rio, Texas.  He is tired of doing other men’s dirty work and killing every young gun slinger looking to make a name for himself.  Nothing, Maxwell claims, can get him to go back to doing what he does best.

But when Lord Wilford Bristol’s prize stallion, Trafalgar, the result of careful crossbreeding between the best of Europe’s thoroughbreds and the mustangs of the American West, is stolen by Mexican Comancheros, the English transplant is able to convince Maxwell to do what he says no amount of money can ever pay him to do.  Maxwell gets a group of hardened professionals together to cross the Rio Grande and storm the bandit’s stronghold and try to recover the precious horse.

There’s fellow gunfighter Jess Howard who made a promise to kill Maxwell if they ever met again; train robber and gambler Logan Smith; ex-convict and horse thief Tuck Howard whom Maxwell help put in prison, and a young Mexican . Armando Sequra, who is very good with a knife.  These men, along with Lord Bristol’s foreman, Tom Kelso, a former Texas Ranger, are the only men who agree to go into hell to get back the animal.