The Highbinders

by Matt Braun

Book Overview

In California, The Southern Pacific Railway was prying the West wide open, and the land was worth its weight in gold. While some men got in on the action, and some got out of the way, one group of settlers was making a stand--and holding up the railway. Turning to Alan Pinkerton's Chicago detective agency, the railroad robber barons hired the perfect agent to penetrate the settler's organization, a man who had learned a spy's trade in the Civil War...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312997841
• ISBN13: 9780312997847
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Braun does it again.

As in all of his books this one is another saga of the West. I particularily like the historical references that are laced throughout his books, and this one is no exception. Although not Shakespeare, it is a page turner of a good western within a general theme of the West that gives it a sense of a part of the tapestery of events that is the lore of the Southwest.