the first." At the end of the book, the success of Mack's 90-mile kayak ride to Alaska is left unresolved. The resolution of the story is left to the reader's imagination. Reference list External links LouisLamour.com, Official Website of Louis L'Amour See also The Walking Drum, one of the author's other novels outside the Western genre Novels by Louis L'Amour American thriller novels 1987 American novels Bantam Books books