Golden Spur Award–winning author Richard S. Wheeler continues his popular series featuring frontier journalist Sam Flint with Flint’s Truth, a tale of corruption and cover-up set against he vibrant backdrop of the American West.
An editor is popular only if he can keep a secret, and Sam Flint’s new home of Oro Blanco has more than its share. Flint chooses this small frontier town, the site of the richest gold strike in the New Mexico Territory, to launch his newest weekly newspaper, the Oro Blanco Nugget. As soon as he hits town, however, Flint can tell that something is not right, as the atmosphere in Oro Blanco is thick with signs of corruption and injustice. With all trails leading to the big mining bosses, Flint prepares to do battle for the truth, while defending his newspaper and his life.
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"Good western of crusading newspaper editor in small, corrupt town. The only problem is that Wheeler has a habit of killing some of his more interesting good characters. If not for that, I would have given it a 5-star rating. " — Jeff (4 out of 5 stars)
"Good western of crusading newspaper editor in small, corrupt town. The only problem is that Wheeler has a habit of killing some of his more interesting good characters. If not for that, I would have given it a 5-star rating. "
“A modern master of the historical novel…This is a superb series.”
“Nobody does it better than Dick Wheeler…An extraordinary writer.”
“Narrator Cullen…handles the accents with aplomb and differentiates genders without strain.”
“Wheeler is a master both of frontier detail and the fine points of newspapering, while his storytelling is not likely to upset parents nervous about jalapeño in the guacamole.”
" Good western of crusading newspaper editor in small, corrupt town. The only problem is that Wheeler has a habit of killing some of his more interesting good characters. If not for that, I would have given it a 5-star rating. "
Richard S. Wheeler is the award-winning author of historical novels, biographical novels, and Westerns. He began his writing career at age fifty, and by seventy-five he had written more than sixty novels. He began life as a newsman and later became a book editor, but he turned to fiction full time in 1987. Wheeler started by writing traditional Westerns but soon was writing large-scale historical novels and then biographical novels. In recent years he has been writing mysteries as well, some under the pseudonym Axel Brand. He has won six Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America and the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in the literature of the American West.
John Lescault, a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC, where he works in theater.
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