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By Ken Salter

Pierre Dubois and his attractive female friend, Manon, sail at the American Clipper, Flying Cloud, for San Francisco on the top of the Gold Rush — Dubois tasked to end up mining society fraud and Manon to open a restaurant French legislations won’t let a girl to possess. With lots of the effortless to mine gold long past and boatloads of recent gold seekers arriving weekly, San Francisco is a lawless, raucous, harmful position in 1851, the place quarrels are settled by means of a gun, males outnumber girls 100-1, and crooks rule the streets, bordellos, and playing palaces. Dubois’ and Manon’s odyssey lead them via Little China’s opium dens, brothels, and playing lairs, Little Italy’s captivating trattorias, and directly to the gold fields of the Yuba River the place American and overseas miners compete in adversarial stipulations with one another for the infrequent probability to strike it wealthy. After town is torched through the predatory Sydney geese gang and a Committee of Vigilance seeks to hold them, Pierre and Manon needs to make their method and earn their retain or go back domestic defeated and impoverished like such a lot who risked lifestyles, overall healthiness and kinfolk debt for a dream of riches.

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