 Julie Bronson, whose father operates a desert cafe, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost who runs a desert night club several miles away. The Ghost knows that Pop Bronson is an escaped convict and blackmails him into using his desert shack as a warehouse for "hot" stolen rubber tires to be sold on the Black Market. In an effort to save her father, Julie sends her sweetheart, an army lieutenant stationed at a nearby desert camp, away. A rival gang, led by Kohler, wrecks the crime czar s "pleasure of palace" and gives him a beating. The Ghost, believing Pop Bronson responsible, goes to his desert cafe and brutally shoots him before the horrified eyes of Julie.