Rivers West: A Novel (Talon and Chantry) - Softcover

Journeying westward to pursue his dream of building steamboats to sail the rivers of the American frontier, Jean Talon stumbles into the middle of a young woman's search for her missing brother and a deadly conspiracy, led by Baron Torville, to seize control of the Louisiana Territory. Reissue.

"He killed me," the dying man had said. "He stabbed me." Those words stayed with young Jean Talon as he journeyed westward, finally reaching the Missouri in search of a simple and honest life building river boats. But the stranger died. And that meant unraveling a deadly knot that tied together a vicious renegade's army, the Louisiana Purchase, and the missing brother of a beautiful, headstrong woman. Too near the truth to break away, Jean Talon turns in the tools of his trade for a far more dangerous kind of work--the kind that either gets men killed or earns them a new home in a violent, untamed land.