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.
