West of the Law Author:Ralph Compton Ordered to head west when a notorious New York City gangster puts a price on his head, Detective Sergeant John McBride ends up in the lawless boomtown of High Hopes, Colorado. But lying low goes against the lawman's grain. In a town where miners and innocents are easy prey, McBride quickly runs afoul of corrupt saloon owner Gamble Trask and his... more » vicious hired guns. Then a beautiful card dealer comes to McBride for protection, and he vows to take down Trask and destroy his vile trade in opium and Chinese slave girls. Now it's high time for one of New York's finest to dole out some frontier justice of his own.« less