Peace at Battle Mountain continues the adventures of Arthur and Gwynn Stone amid personal failure, economic chaos, legal problems, and (as usual) murders. I’ll be interested to see whether my friends like it. This installment of the Arthus Stone series of economic crime and murder mysteries places Houston attorney Arthur Stone in the crosshairs of corporate and personal murderous forces. Years after surviving a car bombing during the 1980s banking crisis, Arthur is now one of Texas’s most respected and successful lawyers, a standing achieved at the cost of his marriage and his children’s well-being.One reviewer describes the book this way:
Amid a personal crisis, he is involved in a lawsuit against a wiley opponent that involves murder. While Arthurgrapples with concerns for his children’s safety, new dangers await him and his investigators as they search for missing evidence and killers still at large. These searches take us through corporate suites, country club neighborhoods, exclusive resorts, and charming rural retreats populated by equally memorable characters.
Interesting and informative, the story’s pace and varied plot strands are well managed. Often, the characters themselves explain judicial, police, and financial procedures, even to the point of enlightening us on the sleight of hand accounting that disguises unwise investments—otherwise known as fraud. Setting Peace at Battle Mountain apart from its genre is the leavening of spiritual yearning, which haunts Arthur Stone and guides his trusted advisors. —Granville Sydnor Hill