Next of Kin

The date is 1898 and the last great gold rush is at fever pitch. In the bleak and empty wilderness of the frozen Yukon the young Jack Harper buries his best friend in a lonely snow-covered valley. Almost one hundred years would pass before the deserted and forgotten grave became the focus of a search more frantic than the rush to the Klondike itself, and the prize more valuable than all the gold ever found there. Who was Harper’s mysterious friend, and why did he die? And why did Harper become America’s most wanted man? NEXT OF KIN twists and turns through the agonizing cold of Alaska and the Yukon, to the stifling humidity of New Orleans, and from the fledgling Russian Revolution to a man’s private battle with his conscience. Spanning a century of violence and intrigue, the race to unravel the truth of what happened that day so long ago begins with an innocent message in the personal column of the New York Times.