This fifth episode of Blacksad, Amarillo, opens in New Orleans: Weekly has to leave the city; he leaves John who prefers to stay there to look for work. Luckily, he meets a rich Texan who proposes to take his car home: a simple and well paid job! The detective accepts, but, in a gas station, he gets stolen the car by Chad Lowell and Abe Greenberg – two beatnik writers who are looking to join Amarillo, Texas. Soon, a quarrel between the two men, rivals, turns to drama: Chad, pushed to the end, shoots Abe who dies on the spot. Obliged to flee, Chad finds refuge in a circus. John starts to pursue him on the American roads of New Mexico, Colorado, Texas and Illinois.