A nation was at war. A beleaguered president needed a railroad. And a few dreamers were going to make it happen. But for the men behind the project, and the men risking their lives to lay steel tracks across the towering Sierra, building the Central Pacific was more than a risky job and a dangerous adventure.it was war. One man ruled a mountainside-and made a deal with the would-be railroad’s competitors. If Simon Striker could stop the steel tracks, he could earn a fortune. Now a brawling quarreling crew of immigrant railroad workers-Chinese, Irish, and Polish-are about to be swept into a deathtrap. And as Striker unleashes his landslide of terror, treachery, and murder, a tough Irishman and a sword-wielding Chinese fighter are going after him-in a battle of courage and cunning on a mountain stained with blood.