DEAD RECKONING: A Novel of the Puget Sound, Labor Wars, and the Land's Long Memory Kindle Edition

DEAD RECKONINGThe Sound keeps its secrets in cold water and deep channels. So does Einar Voss.A former Pinkerton operative running freight on aging Kviksølv steamer, Einar has spent three years navigating the silence between who he was and what he did on the Everett docks in 1916 — the moment he let a man live who he was paid to destroy.Now a ledger has surfaced. Names, payments, a paper trail leading to the planned destruction of a labor hall in Centralia, Washington. Armistice Day, 1919. Eleven days away.To move the evidence through waters his former employer controls, Einar will need everything the Sound has taught him — and everything his navigator, Thomas Sqwahl, has been quietly teaching him for three years about water, memory, and what the land remembers long after men have finished arguing over it.Some reckonings take years to complete. Read more