Backfire

<b>CHICAGO-THE GEM OF THE PRAIRIE-EARLY AUTUMN 1871</b></br> The city was alive. Raw materials and finished goods moved as fast as the new railroads and lake schooners could carry them. Wisconsin white pine lumber was big business in a city composed of thousands of wooden structures connected by wooden sidewalks and wooden-block streets.</p> <p>Competition was fierce ruthless and deadly.</p> <p>An Eau Claire lumberman is killed in his hotel room and a competitor Arlyn Rygg from Green Bay must work with the police to find the real killer in order to exonerate himself. His inquiries draw him into a maelstrom of intrigue and deception. Ultimately he races through the Great Fire and learns more than he ever wanted to know.</p> <p>Praise for <i>Natural Drift</i> a contemporary Western action mystery pinning a Montana County Sheriff against a rogue U.S. Marshall.</p> I am writing to let you know how much I enjoyed your novel Natural Drift. I found it to be a very good read with a realistic plot and well developed characters. I honestly could not put it down once I started it.</br> -Sheriff Thomas Rieger Carbon County Montana</p>