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The End of the Line

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It's the winter of 1884, and five hundred

Canadian Pacific Rail workers have halted their push through the Rockies at

Holt City, an isolated shantytown in the shadow of the Continental Divide.

The men are tired and cold, and patience is as scarce as the rationed food.

Then, Deek Penner, a CPR section boss, is brutally murdered at the end of

the track. His body is found frozen on the banks of the Bow River.

Durrant Wallace, a veteran of the celebrated

March West by the North West Mounted Police a decade earlier, is returned to

active duty to investigate the murder. Durrant lost his leg in a gun battle

with whiskey traders three years previous, and he struggles with being a

Mounted Police officer who cannot ride. When Durrant arrives, Holt City is

ripe with possible suspects: illegal whiskey smugglers, spies for rival

railways, explosives dealers and a mysterious Member of Parliament who

insists on getting his meddling fingers into everybody else's business.

Durrant must use his cunning and determination to discover to identify the

killer before he finds his next victim and derails the great Canadian

national dream in the process.