Charles Robert Carner

Veteran rancher and former sheriff John Landsburg (Jon Voight), is forced to challenge the federal bureaucracy when an old enemy, Tap Peterson (James Caan), seeking revenge over a decades-old grudge falsifies documents and alleges...

The story centers on a small-town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue a woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big Enron-type corruption trial in Chicago but are later found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her.