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As the 1960s draw to a close, the rural northeast Texas community of Center Springs is visited by two nondescript government men in dark suits and shades. They say their assignment is to test weather currents and patterns, but that's a lie. Their delivery of a mysterious microscopic payload called Gold Dust from a hired crop duster coincides with fourteen-year-old Pepper Parker's discovery of an ancient gold coin in her dad's possession. Her adolescent trick played on a greedy adult results in the only gold rush in north Texas history. The biological agent deemed benign by the CIA has unexpected repercussions, putting Pepper's near-twin cousin, Top, at death's door. The boy's crisis sends their grandfather, Constable Ned Parker, to Washington D. C. to exact personal justice, joined by a man Ned left behind in Mexico and had presumed dead. The CIA agents who operate on the dark side of the U. S. government find they're no match for men who know they're right and won't stop. Especially two old country boys raised on shotguns. Traitors, cattle-rustlers, murderers, rural crime families, grave robbers, CIA turncoats, and gold-hungry prospectors pursue agendas that all, in a sense, revolve around the center of this small vortex called Center Springs. Gold Dust seems to be fiction, but the truth is, it has already happened.

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Reavis Z. Wortham is the critically acclaimed author of the Red River Mysteries set in rural Northeast Texas in the 1960s. As a boy, he hunted and fished the river bottoms near Chicota, the inspiration for the fictional location. He is also the author of a thriller series featuring Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke. He teaches writing at a wide variety of venues, including local libraries and writers' conferences. Wortham has been a newspaper columnist and magazine writer since 1988, and has been the humor editor for Texas Fish and Game Magazine for the past twenty-two years. He and his wife, Shana, live in Northeast Texas. With a career spanning Broadway, off-Broadway, and television, James D. Sasser is an award-winning writer, director, producer, and narrator. A classically trained singer and actor, he studied voice at Manhattan School of Music, acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and playwriting at NYU-Tisch GMTWP. Work for the stage has ranged from roles such as Sweeney Todd, Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar, even being a singer for Riverdance on Broadway, and recent television appearances include Succession, Madam Secretary, and more. His voice can be heard in dozens of audiobooks and hundreds of commercials, where he's often a detective, a drawling gunslinger, or a swashbuckling bodice ripper, and often British. Recent titles include the fantasy YA Witches, Boys, And Other Monsters by Gail Blue and the Penguin history Gay Berlin by Robert Beachey. He is the voice of several audiobook hit series, including the Larry Macklin Mysteries by AE Howe and the Anderson Chronicles by Kit Karson, and recently, the new narrator for the critically acclaimed military action Axel Blaze Thrillers by Bill Runner. An accent specialist, James was born in Japan, grew up in Germany and the UK, and has lived in Northern California wine country, London, and Seattle. He's an avid gardener and green space advocate, and no matter where he's worked and traveled, always comes home to NYC.

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