Cashbox

What happens to a frontier mining town when the ore runs out? Historical novelist Richard Wheeler explores this in his towering novel, Cashbox.  Here we meet Cornelius Daley, mining speculator and bon vivant; Sylvie Duvalier, who runs a club in the silver mining town, and others whose lives and fortunes depend on the plentiful silver ore under their feet. There's a sign at the outskirts of town: Cashbox, Where no till is empty. But then, one day, all the tills are empty, and desperate men and women face hardships they hoped would never happen. Cashbox is not only Dick Wheeler's finest novel, it may be the finest novel by any writer published this year. --The Roundup