It is 1901 and the Yukon goldfields come alive, along with some shady business in the bars and dancehalls of Dawson City. This accurate historical detective story is both an adventure and murder mystery, that takes the reader into a conspiracy involving a plot to take over the Yukon gold fields, steamship robberies in both Yukon and Alaska, and extortion on miners.

John Caldwell and his friends take on these criminals and pursue them from King Solomon’s Dome into Alaska, where the American army assists and ends with the trial in Dawson City. Along the way he encounters Jane Warne, an attractive Pinkerton agent, who is always one step ahead until John rescues her when they were left to die in the wilderness.