The Plunderer

The stenographer has barely left when Roger Payne kicks back from his desk and tells his partner, “I want you to buy me out!” Two years of business have felt like a prison; the outdoors still feels like living.

Roger is a machinery man with a frost-and-sun-darkened face, trapped among cost figures and polished desks in the city. He means to leave it behind for Jordan City, his old hometown, and find a life that keeps him outdoors. But the quiet farm town has its own arrival: the well-fed Isaiah Granger, welcomed by its leading citizens, soon asks the banker in private, “What’s the prospects for a killing?” Roger is heading home just as a stranger’s plans begin to surface. What will he find waiting in Jordan City?

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