The High Graders: A Novel
by By LAmour, Louis
Category: Fiction , Westerns

The story was that Eli Patterson had died in a gunfight, but Mike Shevlin knew it  couldn’t be true: the man who’d been like a father to him had been a Quaker. But  when Shevlin rides back to Rafter Crossing to uncover the truth, he finds that the  quiet ranching community has become a booming mining town. Newfound wealth has not  made Rafter a peaceful place, however, and the smell of fear and greed is thick in  the air. As Mike Shevlin tries to unravel the mystery of Patterson’s death, he is  led deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that controls not only the fate of Rafter  Crossing but the heart of a beautiful but tormented young woman—and Shevlin’s own  destiny.