Colonel Rupert Waterford had deliberately sent his men into a Confederate trap at the Battle of Black Horse Creek and all were massacred apart from Sam Small and a drummer boy. The truth emerged when the man and boy were court-martialled for desertion. After the war, Major Horatio Wilde, alias Sabre Wilde, the turncoat outlaw, was called in to find the Colonel and kill him. But it was a dangerous trail and death stalked Wilde and his men all the way...