For months now it had been Roddy Bruce-Morgan's dream to ride north of the border and make his fortune up in the uncharted wilderness men called Alaska. But unlike the prospectors already flooding into the so-called 'Great Land', the young Scotsman had no intention of panning for gold.

"Oh no," he told professional fighting man Carter O'Brien the day he hired him. "Quite the contrary. I plan to take a commodity far more valuable than that into Alaska, and once there, to sell it for top dollar."

But what kind of commodity could be more valuable than gold? And why did Bruce-Morgan need O'Brien to bodyguard him on the thousand-mile trek?

As one bloody confrontation with Bruce-Morgan's enemies followed another, O'Brien began to get his answers. But by then it was too late to turn back …

Includes the essay BEN BRIDGES AND CARTER O'BRIEN!!