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...
- ISBN13 9780312966638
- Publish Date 7 March 2017 (first published 15 October 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 April 2002
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 358
- Language English