The Trackwalker
By (Author) Robert Vaughan
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Thorndike Press
Thorndike Press
1st February 2025
Large Print Edition
United States
General
Fiction
Historical fiction
Hardback
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
Jared Macalester is, to all appearances, a trackwalker for the Union Pacific. His first notable action in this entertaining Western pot-boiler is to throw a boorish cowboy off a train, while the train is in motion. The cowboy had been petering a woman newspaper editor Before Macalaster can show his face in the tale, bandits rob a UP train of its money shipment, and kill an agent. Macalester has, in fact, been assigned by the Faraday Security Agency to solve the robbery case, and uses the trackwalker position as a cover. His assignment evolves to cleaning up the railroad town of Ironsprings, and is complicated by the corrupt local lawmen and various roughnecks.
Robert Vaughan sold his first book when he was 19. That was 57 years and nearly 500 books ago.