Billy Hawes is a fascinating story of one man's adventures in pursuit of justice and revenge. It covers the twenty-year period prior to the end of the First World War at a time when the British Empire was at its zenith. Billy Hawes is a young country lad that falls in love with a wayward girl only to be snatched away by the British Army to fight the Boers in South Africa. There he meets a Boer widow who suffers badly at the hands of three of Billy's comrades. From then on it is a wild chase across the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe in pursuit of justice for the crimes these three have committed.