Pastorius Grant is an old bounty-hunter—merciless, jaded, and dying. He knows he hasn’t got long to live but, partly out of habit and partly because it is the only thing he knows, he keeps doing what he has always done: tracking down criminals of every shape and size. It isn’t a nice job, but that has never really bothered him; Pastorius isn’t a nice guy. But when he tries to catch Big Hand, a wily outlaw who has taken refuge on an Indian reserve, he runs into a blind girl, with a pig for a companion. She tells him that her father has been murdered and that, on his deathbed, he instructed her to find the bounty-hunter and avenge his death…