Desert Duel — Jon Sharpe

Fargo chases down a Celestial star.

After going bust in a San Francisco Fargo poker game, Fargo is desperate for cash.  So when a Chinese gentleman offers him a thousand dollars to find the man's missing daughter, Fargo reluctantly agrees. But his search quickly turns into something much more.
 
Other Chinese have been disappearing -- and a trail of tears and terror leads Fargo all the way to the wastelands of Death Valley, where the monstrous Tobias Cain has transformed the desert landscape into an oasis fed by a secret water source and an unlimited supply of Chinese slave labor. Now, Fargo is going to take Cain and his entire vile operation down, and turn the desert paradise into bloody perdition…