Bounty hunter Jack Coltrane arrives in the most dangerous section of San Francisco, the Barbary Coast. An old friend needs Jack to find her son, who was last seen at the Redwing Saloon. The manager is a wanted man with a hefty bounty on his head, but no one is brave enough to try and collect it. Except Jack.
But there's more going on than meets the eye, and if Jack can't sort out the good guys from the bad guys, he's going to end up going home in a pine box.
This 15,800 word novelette is loaded with traditional western action and can be read in one sitting.