After terrorizing the people of Nodaway County and repeatedly escaping justice for years, the town bully finally meets his demise at the hands of the townspeople of Skidmore, Missouri. Immediately, law enforcement at all levels mount an intense investigation to find and arrest the shooters. But the townspeople refuse to cooperate, even defiantly challenging the FBI to make good on their threats to arrest every adult male in town for murder and conspiracy.

David Randall may be a schizophrenic, but he's no murderer -- at least that's what he claims. Having served time for two killings he swears not to have committed, Randall is now home, medicated and attempting to start a new life. But that proves difficult when the masked figure he sighted at the scene of the murders is back; a friend is in danger; and everyone seems to believe that he's the real threat in this chiller from Jack Thomas Smith.