Devil's Engine - Softcover

Sumner, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345402103 ISBN 13: 9780345402103

Verlag: Ballantine Books Inc., 1997

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In an early American West in an alternate universe, robber baron Jay Gould lays tracks for the first transcontinental railroad with the secret intent of robbing Medicine Rock of its magic. Original.

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EAT HOPE--AND GREATER TERROR<br><br><br><br>The end of the Civil War and the rise of magical talents had brought unheard-of dangers to the West. Signers and scribblers and chatterers called up nightmare conjurations more dreadful than those that already roamed the unsettled land. Even a bullet-stopping sheriff with as much talent as Jake Bird was hard-pressed to keep Medicine Rock going when towns from Canada to Mexico were being abandoned.<br><br><br><br>Unknown to the settlers, a greater calamity yet was stalking them. Using Buffalo Bill Cody as his agent, robber baron Jay Gould was laying tracks for America's first transcontinental railroad. Medicine Rock was chosen as the rail point where East would meet West. But the honor concealed catastrophe, for with his strange blue-green steel rails, Gould intended to rob the entire territory of its magic.<br><br><br><br>Bullets would fly, blood would flow, and Buffalo Bill, Sheriff Jake, and the mysterious Rainmaker woul

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• Verlag: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0345402103
• ISBN 13: 9780345402103
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294
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