A prospector’sbody is found near the railroad tracks south of Fairbanks. At the miner’s cabin, Tlingit Alaska State Trooper Sergeant Robert Sablefinds two bodies slumped over a table in pools of blood. While investigatingthe crime scene, he finds hidden under the base of the prospector’s fireplaceseveral hundred thousand dollars in gold nuggets the killers missed. Rumors flythat the prospector had found the Dutchman, a mine of myth, legend and a curse.Over the last hundred years, men have died trying to find the mine. If theyfound it, the curse would kill them and the mine would be lost again. Bennett’s killers are closing on the mine’slocation and as Sable follows the clues, they lead him closer to the killersand mortal danger.
