The Devil's Bounty — Larry Jay Martin

Gold fever has swept across California's Barbary Coast, and fires of passion, lawlessness, and violence burn in its wake. Nothing is forbidden and everything is for sale--human lives bartered for mounds of sparkling dust. John Clinton Ryan has come to San Francisco to rescue the beautiful Apolonia Vega. Abducted from her father's ranch by a gang of gold-hungry sailors, she's bound for foreign shores--and a fate worse than death. From the waterfront's bleak back alleys to Chinatown's infamous flesh markets, Clint's out to exact a measure of honor and justice in a city where the only law is that of hot lead ...and cold blood.