Publisher's Synopsis
This volume in Charles Crawford's life is filled with action. Charles receives divine interception and is informed of a man that will come to him to gain information. A brother to one of the gangsters killed in New York is in Philadelphia and has plans to remove Charles and his entire family from the face of the earth. Charles is forced to act before an assassin is hired.While Charles' wife Judith recovers from the bullet wound, Charles takes the children to England and France to buy grapevine plants to produce Champagne. A long-time friend, Colonel Absalom H. Markland, comes to England to help protect Charles from two hired assassins that were paid to make sure Charles does not return to America.The adventures continue and Charles visits Sacramento and the meeting with the new store manager that Ghost hired ends with Charles firing the manager.Charles and the family travel to Valejo and Ghost saves Charles from an attack by the fired store manager wielding a hickory ax handle.In court, a new judge with other motives releases the prisoner and charges Ghost with assault, resulting in a 30-day jail sentence.Charles is devastated, and begins to dig into who this judge is, and why did he make such a horrific decision.
