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The Copper Trail
Paperback
Publisher: Chris Lowry
Published: Feb 16 2026
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
THE COPPER TRAIL
A Gritty Western Thriller of Corruption, Revenge, and Frontier Justice
He was hired to find stolen money. Instead, he uncovered a massacre buried under desert dust.
Calvert was once the best detective Wells Fargo had-until whiskey and regret ruined everything. Now broke and disgraced in the Arizona Territory, he takes a job no one else wants: track down a stolen mining payroll worth forty-seven thousand dollars in gold certificates.
But the trail leads somewhere darker.
A deadly mine collapse killed eleven men. The company called it an accident. The widows call it murder. And someone knew the payroll schedule well enough to rob it clean and vanish into the desert.
As Calvert digs deeper, he uncovers letters, suppressed reports, and a corporate cover-up that reaches from dusty mining camps to powerful men in San Francisco. The deeper he goes, the more dangerous the truth becomes-especially with a violent company enforcer, a compromised deputy marshal, and ruthless executives determined to keep their secrets buried.
Outlaws, corporate killers, and frontier justice collide in THE COPPER TRAIL, a cinematic Western thriller packed with gunfights, conspiracies, and hard-boiled detective grit.
Perfect for fans of:
- gritty Western thrillers and frontier noir
- lawman vs outlaw and corporate corruption stories
- historical Western fiction with realistic detail
- Louis L'Amour, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy
- crime mysteries set in the Old West
Justice was never meant to be found on the copper trail.
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