Lower Missouri River, late summer 1835.
Two brothers, fur trappers Zebadiah
and Jonathan Creed, are bushwhacked.
Jonathan is murdered and Zebadiah left
for dead. Zeb is found by a Quaker doctor
and his daughter, who nurse him back to
health and insist he stay with them. But
the appeal of a peaceful life cannot quell
Zeb’s burning desire for revenge and he
sets out to find the two men who killed
his brother.
In recounting his search, Zebadiah
Creed spins an exciting tale that leads
readers by steamboat down the Great
Mississippi to St. Louis and on to New
Orleans, where Zeb finds revenge is
never as simple as killing a man, and
retribution and redemption are not the
same.
Two brothers, fur trappers Zebadiah
and Jonathan Creed, are bushwhacked.
Jonathan is murdered and Zebadiah left
for dead. Zeb is found by a Quaker doctor
and his daughter, who nurse him back to
health and insist he stay with them. But
the appeal of a peaceful life cannot quell
Zeb’s burning desire for revenge and he
sets out to find the two men who killed
his brother.
In recounting his search, Zebadiah
Creed spins an exciting tale that leads
readers by steamboat down the Great
Mississippi to St. Louis and on to New
Orleans, where Zeb finds revenge is
never as simple as killing a man, and
retribution and redemption are not the
same.
