Fly with inventor Frank Rude, Jr. and his friends to New York City and their adventures as wild as the West. With his sister Inanna, cousin Charlie, Denver Doll the Detective Queen, the mysterious Woman in Black, orphan PS and Ko-Ko the Monkey-Boy they face the enigmatic Flying Prairie Schooner and take on Wall Street, Chinatown, Little Italy and Five Points. Together they turn New York's gang history upside down and Frank creates his greatest invention yet.