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The Man on Horseback
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781667664576
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Jan 23 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the rugged isolation of early 20th-century Idaho, a red-haired horse wrangler stumbles into wealth when his inherited mine reveals an extraordinary gold vein-and something else.
Buried deep beneath the Hoodoo Mountains lies a substance unknown to science, a metal that resists classification and causes strange, inexplicable sensations. As laboratories fail to identify it and rumors spread across borders, powerful interests in prewar Europe take notice.
Foreign agents descend on the American West with offers, threats, and agendas of their own. As national tensions build and scientific curiosity turns political, one man finds himself at the center of a conflict far beyond gold.
Blending frontier grit with emerging fears of espionage and industrial warfare, The Man on Horseback is a tense, intelligent historical mystery that asks what happens when a discovery defies not only the laws of nature-but the balance of power itself.
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