Page Murdock is a cynical, tough U.S. marshal - the last man you would want on your tail. In white Desert, Montana-based Murdock pursues a vicious gang into the snowbound Canadian north. To get his men Murdock must outwit and outmaneuver some aggressive, unpredictable Metis, but even before he approaches the quarry, the marshal runs into a colony of escaped slaves, and a band of Sioux, followers of Crazy Horse who fled to his Grandmother's Land for safety; and neither group is entirely happy to see him...

Author Biography

Loren D. Estleman was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a BA degree in English Literature and Journalism in 1974. In 2002, the university awarded him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters for his contribution to American literature. He is the author of more than fifty novels in the categories of mystery, historical western, and mainstream, and has received four Western Writers of American Golden Spur Awards, three Western Heritage Awards, and three Shamus Awards. He has been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Britain's Silver Dagger, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2003, the mammoth "Encyclopedia of Detective Fiction" named him the most critically acclaimed writer of U.S. detective