he Denver Cipher: The Reckon Broderick Westerns
They burned his family to ash and blamed it on the Blackfoot. The lie held for one winter.
Then the evidence surfaced.
Award-winning author Christopher Reynolds returns to the Reckon Broderick Westerns with a story of buried evidence, railroad money, and a family murder that refuses to stay hidden.
Craigston "Reckon" Broderick buried his wife and children north of the Cache la Poudre and rode west to outrun the grief. San Francisco gave him clean sheets, a tailored black suit, and the illusion of distance. Then a coded telegram found him on a fog-wet pier.
His father's hand was in it. Stripped of its noise, the message was plain. The men who murdered his family still walked free. The frame that shielded them was cracking. And the truth had put Dr. Jonathan Broderick squarely in its path.
The threat rose out of Denver: railroad money, borrowed law, and men who had learned that a fire could bury a crime as cleanly as a body.
Now father and son ride converging trails, and only one of them knows how little road is left. Reckon carries a Colt, a scarred dog, a horse still learning to trust quiet, and a name the Crow gave him. The one who weighs. The one who stands between what was done and what must be answered.
Denver is waiting.
So are the men who thought the fire had finished it.
Some men bury the truth. He rides to uncover it.
The Denver Cipher, recognized for Outstanding Literary Achievement in Historical Fiction by the International Impact Book Awards, is the second novel in the Reckon Broderick saga. A standalone story that carries a larger reckoning forward, it is for readers who ride with Louis L'Amour, William W. Johnstone, and the hard, honest West they built.
Discover The Reckon Broderick Westerns.