In 1855, San Francisco is a wild and sin filled port of entry for the gold rush.
When a gambler murders a Deputy US Marshal his prostitute mistress hires Memphis to deliver bribe payments to corrupt jailer Billy Mulligan. But Memphis' loyalty is to the other side. He becomes a double agent, working to free the gambler while secretly helping the people rid their city of corruption.
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John came west as a young man and settled in Berkeley where he graduated from the University of California. He still lives and writes there and often gives a talk on the California gold rush to the gang at the Freight and Salvage.
He spent a lot of time digging into that gold rush too and many of his stories take place back then. John's characters are so real they'll jump right off the page and talk to you; his villains have hearts as cold as midnight and his heroes almost always do the right thing in the end.