A nineteenth-century drifter returns from Japan to learn that his tuberculosis has left him "weeks, months, but not years." He embarks on a philosophical inquiry of death as he journeys on the historic overland route from New York to the Rocky Mountains.Rumors of a sword-wielding devil catch up to him in a mining town at the foot of the Rockies and leave him entangled in power struggles with an ambitious speculator, a notorious Madame, and a ruthless gang of outlaws. The answers he seeks lead him to challenge the town's most ruthless power-for a confrontation where the improbability of success is blackened by the enigma of his reputation.
- | Author: Tim Blaine
- | Publisher: Harvard Square Editions
- | Publication Date: May 18, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 208 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1941861350
- | ISBN-13: 9781941861356