Description: When corporate coal strip-mining interests begin to take over a ranching town in southeastern Montana all hell breaks loose. It seems the land is fighting back: vast sage flats erupt in fire, massive storms blast down from all directions, and an extinct buffalo wolf is heard howling in the night. One man tries to hold back the tide of disaster: Joe Graves, a rancher whose family has farmed this arid, harsh land for generations. Graves knows the land better than anyone. What he doesn't know is that his father sold the mineral rights to the ranch--and Graves is about to find out that Dark Star (the corporate giant) is coming to claim those rights. What Dark Star doesn't realize is that it will have more than just a mere man to fight--the very elements are set against them. Steeped in atmosphere and electrically charged suspense, this graphic, shocking novel firmly establishes John Holt's authority as a novelist, and reveals his own dark vision of what "civilization" is doing to the West.

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