It should have been easy: all Clint Adams, The Gunsmith, had to do was take a riverboat down to New Orleans and deliver a small package for President Grant. The trip starts out perfectly: gambling when he wants it and the bed of a luscious lady when he's had enough of cards. But when they get to New Orleans, the lady disappears. From the city's grand hotels to its dangerous back streets, The Gunsmith searches for some clue to the whereabouts of the missing woman, and at the same time dodges the bullets aimed at him by a group of men whose political passions are interfering with his lusty ones.