.....Is Johnny Running Tree, a Shoshone Indian, who defaults on his order to garrote Susan Harris because of her mute son Jeff and who then is on the run from other hirelings of a murder incorporated organization. The steps that brought him to this, his further attempts to save Susan and Jeff's lives, his finding his old love, Beth, and the Indian influences that still govern him, make this a suspense tale with a difference with a lot of rough going, in New York City by night and day. Transitory.