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The Wizard of Hope: The Alaskan Adventures of Percy Hope
Paperback
Series: Goldfield, Book 4
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Neil Perry Gordon
Published: Dec 2 2025
Pages: 398
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Alaska, 1915. A land as vast and unforgiving as it is beautiful, where fortune and ruin arrive on the same tide.
At its center, a bold vision takes shape: the Alaska Railroad, a steel artery meant to unite the Territory from Seward to Fairbanks. Yet beneath this dream of progress stirs something far older and far more dangerous.
When journalist Percy Hope arrives to cover the railroad's construction for the San Francisco Examiner, he expects to find grit and glory. Instead, he uncovers a brutal murder and a silver medallion that seems to pulse with life. The relic hints at powers buried deep within Alaska's wilderness-forces untouched by civilization and unbound by time.
Following the tracks north through storm-lashed coasts, frozen valleys, and the shadow of Denali, Percy encounters visionaries determined to see the line completed-and enemies willing to kill to stop it. Each mile reveals new acts of sabotage, whispers of vanished men, and clues pointing to a hidden war between progress and preservation. As danger mounts, Percy begins to suspect that the medallion's secret may hold the key to both.
Blending history, mystery, and the supernatural, The Wizard of Hope plunges readers into the raw, mythic soul of Alaska's frontier. It is a tale of ambition and awakening, where the whistle of the train carries not only the promise of progress but the echo of something ancient, something that remembers.
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