Double Down

By Zach Neal

The Coffee Pot Mining Company is on the way to the California gold fields when a dying man's treasure map sidetracks them. Turns out prospecting for gold is a lot like work. With bits of colour in the pan, the mother-lode must be around there somewhere. A short story in the western tradition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zach Neal
• Release date: Jan 17, 2015
• ISBN: 9781927957615

Zach Neal

Zach Neal has been writing ever since he can remember. A forestry management professional, he prefers the outdoors to the office. He lives in the Halton Hills overlooking the Greater Toronto Area. He studied at the University of Toronto. Zach’s a single father of two healthy and energetic children. Zach’s boys, Aaron and Jason, mean everything to him.

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Double Down

Zach Neal

Copyright 2014 Zach Neal and Long Cool One Books

Design: J. Thornton

ISBN 978-1-927957-61-5

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The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any person living or deceased, or to any places or events, is purely coincidental. Names, places, settings, characters and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination. The author’s moral rights to the proceeds of this work have been asserted.

Table of Contents

Act One

Act Two

Act Three

About Zach Neal

Double Down

Zach Neal

Act One

There was always the roar of white-water in the background.

After a while, you got so used to it and it kind of went away. Almost anything was better than the desert, but around here it was uphill all the way, no matter which way you looked. It was a little too wet, no matter how you looked at it, in that infernal country.

There were five of us originally, but Sammy Doyle died of a fever three days after we broke