"Cripple Creek, Colorado - the most famous sinkhole of lust and violence in the Rockies. Its dens of vice and seamy bordello row - where he could taste the pleasures of youth, and prove himself a man - beckoned to Brad Medford across the long miles of the West. But when Brad interferes with a renowned gunhandler's taste for beautiful young women, it turns out his first meal in Cripple Creek may be his last."