Rio Grande |
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| Author:
| Braun, Matt |
| ISBN: | 978-0-312-96663-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1998 |
| Publisher: | St. Martin's Press
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| Imprint: | Saint Martin's Paperbacks |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $7.99 |
Book Description:
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Tom Stuart takes risks--in war, in love, and in card games all the way from St. Louis to Mexico. . . The hard-drinking, fast-talking steamboat captain, who knows every shoal and eddy of the Rio Grande from the Big Bend to Brownsville, has a dream of building a shipping empire that will span the windswept Gulf of Mexico to rich, exotic New Orleans. But this is a kind of gamble he's never faced before: with a woman to win, a woman to lose, and a dangerous...
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Tom Stuart takes risks--in war, in love, and in card games all the way from St. Louis to Mexico. . .
The hard-drinking, fast-talking steamboat captain, who knows every shoal and eddy of the Rio Grande from the Big Bend to Brownsville, has a dream of building a shipping empire that will span the windswept Gulf of Mexico to rich, exotic New Orleans. But this is a kind of gamble he's never faced before: with a woman to win, a woman to lose, and a dangerous man standing in the way. Now, Stuart is plunged into a fight that will engulf his very soul. And to the winner will go the mighty Rio Grande...