Description: As editor of a fledgling newspaper in Payday, one of the Western towns that sprang up after the Civil War, Sam Flint finds himself in the middle of an all-out war for control of the town. But Sam Flint will put his life on the line for what he believes in.
Brief description:
Richard S. Wheeler is the award-winning author of historical novels, biographical novels, and Westerns. He began his writing career at age fifty, and by seventy-five he had written more than sixty novels. He began life as a newsman and later became a book editor, but he turned to fiction full time in 1987. Wheeler started by writing traditional Westerns but soon was writing large-scale historical novels and then biographical novels. In recent years he has been writing mysteries as well, some under the pseudonym Axel Brand. He has won six Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the American West.
Review Quotes:
"A master storyteller whose heart is obviously in the West."
-- "Library Journal"