Gold Fever

The Sharpshooter #2

by Tobias Cole

Union Army sharpshooter Jed Wells met the possibly mad artist Josephus McCade when they were prisoners in Andersonville, and he remembers well the strange man's rants about a "key" to unimaginable wealth. Now that the guns of the war between North and South have fallen forever silent, curiosity is drawing Jed back onto the trail of the eccentric McCade. But the artist's charmed life may soon be coming to a brutal end, thanks to a secret he will tell no one -- a mystery that's pulling Jed Wells himself into the gunsight of a killer ... and into a fetid quagmire of lies, greed, and vengeance that threatens to drag both him and McCade to their deaths.

336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 1, 2003

About the author

Pseudonym for author Cameron Judge

Reviews

[J.R. Underdown]

The first 2 acts of the book move along well and feel stronger than the first entry. The third act, though, gets a little crazy with a lot of sudden sharp turns that aren't entirely satisfying. Overall, it's still a solid western and a fun series to read.

[Ray Ratliff]

Strange ending.

[Michael Sigler]

3.75/5
Another story in this series revolving around brothers.
Doesn't bode well for the premise of the third novel...