Young Gauge McLane is the lone survivor of a terrifying massacre in a small south of the border church. He wanders the backroads of San Reno until Sheriff Hank Maddox, the tough, no nonsense sheriff of Cameron County discovers McLane, and raises him. In McLane's possession is a book that could destroy the drug cartel's stranglehold on the young people of America if it falls into the wrong hands. The fed's want the book, the Cartels want the book, and McLane is stuck right in the middle.