E-book Category: Novels E-book Title: The Reckoning Author: John McLain Book Description: The Reckoning is a coming-of-age adventure of greed, violence and retribution. Centering on the relationship between a tough old rancher and a young Irish street thug, it travels from the rough streets of early twentieth-century New York to the wide expanses and treacherous intrigues of life on a Wyoming cattle ranch. Nineteen-year-old Tom Callaghan avoids a stretch in Sing Sing by agreeing reluctantly to leave New York with Will Sherman, the man he tried to rob. At Sherman's ranch, Tom clashes with Will's headstrong teenage daughter, Ellen, who has run the place in her father's absence. Ellen sees Tom as the usurper of her late brother's place, yet she and Tom will grow to understand one another even as Ellen is consumed with guilt over her role in her brother's death...
