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The mixture as before -sex, violence and virtue -- but the setting is changed. For Frank Yerby has deserted the Deep South he knows so well, for a portrayal of the turbulent period of California's Gold Rush.
Two lads out of the South have come - for different reasons - to find a fortune in gold. Circumstances turn them to other paths, -Bruce Harkness to farming, which is his life, and Halley Burke to the law, which has its place in the lawless days when violence and death and graft prevailed. Bruce has run off from the love of the woman who had refused to wait for him - and married another; but he nurses the hope she will come to him. Then Jo comes- seeking divorce from Peterson- looking for Bruce, whom she is told is dead. There you have the set up, and it builds to a climax, Fast paced story telling with slick manipulation of the strings that pull the characters to do his will- Yerby once again comes through ( from a period review from Kirkus)
Condition - book club edition from Dial Press, in the year of original publication, iternally the book is very good, the dustjacket is poor at best, but now in a clear removable jacket protector, areas of paper loss to top and tail of spine, creases, losses of paper at dustjacket cornes, tidemark to back cover of dustjacket. Internally unmarked.
