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Railroad Raiders
In the early 1870s, Nate Carlton is asked to investigate a gang attacking trains, stealing silver and cattle, and disappearing before lawmen can identify them. He goes undercover among railroad workers, entering a world where rail construction, transport money and frontier criminal networks overlap. The novel follows Carlton as he tries to expose insiders, protect his identity and bring order to a western economy where railroads have created new targets as well as new routes for escape.
The railroad transforms the scale of western theft. Silver, livestock and payroll money can move rapidly across long distances, but the same network gives organised gangs schedules, depots and predictable choke points to exploit. Carlton’s undercover work reflects a frontier adapting to industrial infrastructure, where solving crime increasingly requires understanding companies, timetables and insiders rather than simply tracking riders across open country.
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