The Robber Barons

HE WAS A PENNILESS OUTSIDER IN THE BLOODY ARENA OF THE ROBBER BARONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS

Tall, intense Clay Monroe, long isolated from his family, a dynasty of lumber merchants, was suddenly called home from abroad. Why did multi-millionaire speculator Harvel Packer want him as his assistant? What did Packer's seductive daughter, Eugenia, really want? Why had his brother, Cyrus, vowed to destroy him? Was the husband of his secret love actually his natural father?

Everyone seemed to know more about Clay Monroe than he did himself, and as he moved brilliantly ahead in the world of Harvel Packer, Philip Armour, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, the mystery deepened.

Only in the midst of a bloody battle for control of America's railroads - pitting Clay against the power of Jim Fisk, biggest, boldest Robber Baron - does the daring young man discover the key to his past, and to his true destiny.