An anonymous New York investor sets in motion a hostile railroad takeoverfinanced by more than a million dollarsin counterfeit bearer bonds issued by arival railroad. The work is carried out by a ruthless, ultra-secret crime syndicate using an enigmatic beauty hired to beguile unsuspecting bankers while ing the bogus paper. The Texas & Pacific Railroad turns to Pinkerton to stop the fraud while victimized banks retain the Great Western Detective League to recover their losses. Colonel David J. Crook assigns the case to ace operatives Briscoe Cane and Beau Longstreet. Pinkerton partner Reginald Kingsley is ed by seductively talented agent Samantha Maples in a pursuit that races across the west and southwest, riding the rails from one exciting encounter to the next. Kingsley and Cane match deductive wits to out smart the mysterious bogus bondsman. Maples and Longstreet engage in a friendlier match with neither taking their eye off the prize. Syndicate muscle resorts to ambush and assassination in a desperate attempt to stop their pursuers from foiling the plot. Nothing will stop them, including terminating their own bogus bondsman.