Canadian Railway 1882

<p><strong>They built the most dangerous railroad in the world. Now someone is building a graveyard along its tracks.</strong></p><p>1882 Canadian Rockies. For Zhang Wei a brilliant Chinese-Canadian laborer the brutal work on the Canadian Pacific Railway is a sentence of slow death. Paid less fed worse and tasked with the most lethal jobs he and his countrymen are treated as disposable-statistical losses in the great national enterprise.</p><p>When his only friend Lin is killed in a suspicious accident Zhang is the only one who sees the murder hidden in the mishap. A cut rope. A misplaced boot print. The signs of a killer who uses the treacherous mountain itself as a weapon. While the white constabulary turns a blind eye Zhang begins a solitary investigation compiling a secret ledger of the dead.</p><p>His hunt pits him against a cunning adversary who stalks the camps making the deaths of coolies look like the cost of doing business. As Zhang uncovers a pattern of ruthless elimination he draws the killer's attention becoming the next target in a deadly game. To survive and expose the truth he must use his intellect to outmaneuver a monster the hostile wilderness and the pervasive racism of his superiors.</p>