The third in the Liam Campbell series (Dutton, October 2000) is set in a gold mine in interior Alaska. One of the ideas for this story came from an experience my father had flying back from Bear River. He landed at what appeared to be a deserted airstrip for a pit stop and a very hairy, very dirty, very intense man with a pump-action shotgun stepped out of the bushes and told Dad he was on private property.
Dad knew right away it was a gold claim, and that there is just no reasoning with gold miners, who have to be some of the most paranoid people in the world (and in Alaska, that’s saying something). He said later it was the fastest piss he ever took. And you thought claim jumping was something that went out with the Gold Rush.
My Reader’s Companion to Nothing Gold Can Stay can be found at this very site.
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About the Dedication
for Dawn
the perfect niece
Sarah’s daughter, Kathy’s niece, I’ve known her since her mother brought her home and let me hold her for the first time. We took to each other instantly. One of the sweetest compliments I’ve ever had was when she told her mom, “I want to be like Auntie Dana.”