Best of the West 2019 - 2nd Place in 20th- to 21st-Century Western
Mystery Fiction by TrueWest Magazine "Wortham's writing style is
easygoing, relying on natural-sounding dialogue and vivid
descriptions to give us the feeling that this story could well have
taken place." -Booklist As the 1960s draw to a close, the rural
northeast Texas community of Center Springs is visited by two
nondescript government men in dark suits and shades. They say their
assignment is to test weather currents and patterns, but that's a
lie. Their delivery of a mysterious microscopic payload called Gold
Dust from a hired crop duster coincides with fourteen-year-old
Pepper Parker's discovery of an ancient gold coin in her dad's
possession. Her adolescent trick played on a greedy adult results
in the only gold rush in north Texas history. Add in modern-day
cattle-rustlers and murderers, and Center Springs is once again the
bull's-eye in a deadly target. The biological agent deemed benign
by the CIA has unexpected repercussions, putting Pepper's near-twin
cousin, Top, at death's door. The boy's crisis sends their
grandfather, Constable Ned Parker, to Washington D.C. to exact
personal justice, joined by a man Ned left behind in Mexico and had
presumed dead. The CIA agents who operate on the dark side of the
U.S. government find they're no match for men who know they're
right and won't stop. Especially two old country boys raised on
shotguns. But there's more. Lots more. Top Parker thought only he
had what had become known as a Poisoned Gift, but Ned suffers his
own form of a family curse he must deploy. Plus, there are many
trails to follow as the lawmen desperately work to put an end to
murder and government experimentation that extends from their tiny
Texas town to Austin and, ultimately, to Washington, D.C. Traitors,
cattle-rustlers, murderers, rural crime families, grave robbers,
CIA turncoats, and gold-hungry prospectors pursue agendas that all,
in a sense, revolve around the center of this small vortex called
Center Springs. Gold Dust seems to be fiction, but the truth is, it
has already happened.
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