Bo Creel and Scratch Morton have a lot of experience with the law: mostly on the wrong side of it. But now the drifters are down to their last dime, and they accept the best job they can get in a boomtown called Mankiller.

As Mankiller's newest deputies, they're pretty impressed with their gold stars, though their boss is a drunken sheriff called Biscuits O'Brien. Bo and Scratch decide to take their new jobs seriously - until they find themselves standing between a cunning clan of killers and the town's terrified citizens. The only hope for the besieged town, Bo and Scratch now have a chance to become real heroes - if they don't get their fool heads blown off first.