Treadwell, A Novel of Alaska Territory: Book One of the Gastineau Channel Quartet

1915 - The Treadwell Mine complex, the most modern, forward thinking, and best engineered hard rock gold mine in the world, sits in the middle of pristine Southeast Alaska, across Gastineau Channel from Juneau. It is a wonder of modernity and a harbinger of what America can accomplish. The Great War rages in Europe and the Gold Standard is the economic engine supplying the engaged armies. In an attempt to keep America out of the war, a German agent travels to the Last Frontier to murder a mine and destroy a national economy. But seasoned Pinkerton agent August Lepke has come to Alaska Territory to investigate a serial killer who is more than he seems. Somewhere in the process of falling in love with an Irish-American suffragette, making firm friends as well as strong alliances in the Tlingit Indian and Filipino communities, and in addition to carrying out his mission - he changes everything. Welcome to Gastineau Channel