
Bound for Gold
A Peter Fallon Novel of the California Gold Rush (Peter Fallon, Book 6)
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William Martin
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Rare-book dealer Peter Fallon returns in a thrilling historical novel about the California Gold Rush, by New York Times bestselling author William Martin
Bound for Gold continues New York Times bestselling author William Martin’s epic of American history with the further adventures of Boston rare-book dealer Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline Carrington. They are headed to California, where their search for a lost journal takes them into the history of Gold Rush. The journal follows young James Spencer, of the Sagamore Mining Company, on a spectacular journey from staid Boston, up the Sacramento River to the Mother Lode. During his search for a "lost river of gold," Spencer confronts vengeance, greed, and racism in himself and others, and builds one of California’s first mercantile empires.
In the present, Peter Fallon’s son asks his father for help appraising the rare books in the Spencer estate and reconstructing Spencer’s seven-part journal, which has been stolen from the California Historical Society. Peter and Evangeline head for modern San Francisco and quickly discover that there’s something much bigger and more dangerous going on, and Peter’s son is in the middle of it. Turns out, that lost river of gold may be more than a myth.
Past and present intertwine as two stories of the eternal struggle for power and wealth become one.
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- BigDogCA
- 03-24-20
Gorgeous Lived History of Gold Country
Living in Northern California for 40 years Martin’s weaving of a present day mystery with highly relatable characters with a well crafted contemporaneous delightful historically accurate blood, sweat and tear jerker tale. All of the sights and sounds of actual events made all of it that more lovely
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- Michelle
- 04-17-20
Bound for Gold
I enjoyed this book. I read the Lincoln Letter by this author and decided to try another of his books. Interesting California Gold Rush story. The narrator gave a great performance.
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