Deputy U.S. Marshal Creek Rivers has a unique ability to track down and capture or kill outlaws he is assigned to find.After he captures some of the most dangerous men of the period, Creek is summoned by the Attorney General to find a little boy who has been kidnapped. Finding the Suggs boy, the kidnappers, and returning the boy safely put another of Creeks' skills on display.Word of Creek's success in finding the Suggs boy became known in California. Creek is summoned again, this time to go to San Francisco, and find the granddaughter of a rich railroad baron. When he starts his investigation, Creek soon discovers it's more than just a simple kidnapping that he has to unravel.