Port Hazard (Page Murdock, US Deputy Marshall, Book 7)

Port Hazard (Page Murdock, US Deputy Marshall, Book 7) by Estleman, Loren D.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780765301901.

Hired killers, sent one by one to Montana Territory after Page Murdock. Murdock doesnt know why someone wants him out of the way, but he knows where theyre coming from. Thus begins Murdocks descent into a hell more decadent, corrupt, and dangerous than even he has ever seen---San Franciscos Barbary Coast. With an unwilling backup man, Murdock takes up temporary residence among the whores, gamblers, dope addicts, and cutthroats of the continents foulest district. No man here is trustworthy. The enemies hes really worried about, though, are the men who run things, the politicians. Murdocks quest also takes him into Chinatown, into opium dens, and into league with a man of an alien culture who controls vices that make respectable people quail. But perhaps the men who seem respectable are the most insidious of all. Loren D. Estlemans latest tale of Page Murdock takes the deputy to the federal marshal into danger and evil appalling even for him, and delivers excitement and satisfaction as only Estleman can.