The true story of shanghaiing - kidnapping men for a voyage to sea, after tehy were slipped drugged liquor - and the politicians who let it happen in San Francisco for over sixty years. In several first hand accounts, victims of the practice tell how they fell to the wiles of San Francisco's crimps. Over seventy photographs and line-drawings, some published for the first time, illustrate the people and places where shanghaiing happened. The century old mystery of James "Shanghai" Kelly's death is solved along the way.
