Durham Red is a bounty-hunter for the Search and Destroy Agency. The S/D men may be known as Strontium Dogs, but Durham Red is the Strontium Bitch with a perchant for blood. She is on the trail of a sadistic drug-trafficker known as the Gothlord. Wanted dead or alive, this bounty is going to be more difficult than most. Failure will see Durham exiled to a baking hot penal colony with little chance of escape.