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Landslide,
Bob Boyd
is a geologist with a damaged memory, who sleeps rough out
in the great forests of British Columbia while on his field
trips into the Northern Territories. An amiable,
resourceful character he never the less has an alarming gap
in his past and doesn't know very much about his youth.
He is called into Fort Farrell by the locally powerful
Matterson Corporation who plan on building a new
hydro-electric plant at the foot of a great new dam. His
job will be to survey the soon to be submerged land and
prospect for hidden minerals that might be profitably
extracted before the valley is flooded.
What Boyd discovers puts him at odds with the Matterson
family, a mixed bunch of spoilt rich-kids and arrogant
bullies, headed by the dominating Bull Matterson. They own
much of Fort Farrell, but like the land they plan on
flooding, their past is built on shakey foundations.
Bob Boyd is most definitely a fly in their collective
ointment, as he strikes up a romantic alliance with Claire
Trinavant, a member of the other once locally powerful
family, who were crushed by the Matterson's ruthlessness.
This story is one of David and Goliath proportions, with
the company desperate to silence Boyd for good before he
can convince the rest of the community of the danger of the
new dam.
A gripping tale with unusual twists all the way
through.