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Private detective Luke Starbuck is hired to uncover the mastermind behind a string of train robberies stealing gold shipments from the San Francisco mint and ventures into the dark and dangerous hellhole of the notorious Barbary Coast in his undercover guise of an outlaw who will do anything to the right price. Original.
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"MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY." -Elmer KeltonIt takes a man with gutsA rare breed of bullbog and bloodhound, private detective Luke Starbuck has been hired to ferret out the Judas working for the Central Pacific-a mastermind behind a string of train robberies. The target: gold shipments from the Frisco mint. All Starbuck has to do is pass himself off as an outlaw and infiltrate the pack...To take on the Barbary CoastBut chumming up to a gang leader like Denny O'Brien means that Starbuck must follow him into the vice pits of the notorious Barbary Coast. Getting inside this hellhole of crime is dangerously easy if you make the right moves. Make the wrong ones, and getting out could be murder..."BRAUN IS ONE OF THE BEST!"-Don Coldsmith, author of the Spanish Bit series
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