Hired killers are sent one by one to the Montana Territory after Page Murdock. Murdock doesn't know why someone wants him out of the way, but he knows where the assassins are coming from. Thus begins Murdock's descent into a hell more decadent, corrupt, and dangerous than even he has ever seen - San Francisco's Barbary Coast. Murdock takes up temporary residence among the whores, gamblers, dope addicts, and cutthroats of the continent's foulest district. No man here is trustworthy. The enemies he's really worried about, though, are the men who run things: the politicians. Murdock's quest takes him into Chinatown, into opium dens, and into an alliance with a man of an alient culture who controls vices that make respectable people quail. But perhaps the men who seem respectable are the most insidious of all.
- ISBN10 0786263237
- ISBN13 9780786263233
- Publish Date 3 May 2004 (first published 1 January 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 October 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Thorndike Press
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 379
- Language English