The Legacy

The date is 1898 and the last great gold rush to the Klondike is at fever pitch. In the bleak and desolate wilderness of the frozen Yukon the young Jack Harper buries his best friend in a lonely snow-covered valley. One hundred years later the deserted and isolated 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? 'The Legacy' 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 begins with an innocent personal message in the New York Times.