However, the main issue facing the Rangers is El Atrevido's reputation as a folk hero among many of the Border residents. Will and Jonas can expect no help from the residents of Coffee City. To bring El Atrevido to justice, they will have to fight their way into the town, somehow get to their quarry and get out of town alive, then get him to Laredo before the gang leader's men ambush them and leave them lying dead in the desert