Cape Nome: The Alaskan Adventures of Percy Hope, Neil Perry Gordon, 2021, self published
Part two of a series, this novel takes place in Cape Nome, Alaska in 1900. Three Swedes, who were prospecting for gold in the area, hit it big. Practically overnight, the area is flooded with thousands of people hoping that the luck is contagious. Along with the prospectors are drunks, gamblers, crooks whores and all sorts of other unsavory types. Included in this flood of humanity is a man named Percy Hope. He now has a respectable job, as a reporter for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, but he is not new to Alaska. Did I mention that also in this book is a government conspiracy, the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, and an actual sea monster?
This book is like taking a time machine to a different time and place in American history. It will certainly keep the reader interested, and it has lots of good writing. This is very much worth reading.
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