"Fire of Death, a vicious tong gang from San Francisco, begins to terrorize the small dusty town of Antioch, Texas. The gang seeks to destroy the town as vengeance against a Chinese family, now living in Antioch. The father of the family had killed two of the gang's members a year before in an act of self-defense. Bulldog Barkin, the town's sheriff, calls in range detective Rance Dehner for help. Dehner quickly discovers that the sheriff's name is not the only strange thing about the case. Fire of Death is being manipulated by dark forces that seek power and wealth at any cost. Standing in the way of the killers and thugs is Meng Yao, a young woman trying to be the mediator between her family and the surrounding Texans. She is being aided by Sara, an elderly woman who claims to have visions, and Nathan, a giant of a man with remarkable strength, but a man who is dangerously gullible. Rance Dehner must find the real perpetrators of hate and slaughter before the handful of brave people who defy the outlaws are brutally killed."--