Summary
The Silver Horde unfurls like a frost-bitten fever dream across the writhing currents of Alaskan waters, where a ruined city-boy—his ledger ink still wet with humiliation—trades boardroom ash for brine-soaked decks, wagering his last pulse of dignity against the iron-willed magnate whose daughter’s laughter once ricocheted through his plush Chicago nights. Salmon, those mercury-bright coiled secrets of the deep, become both currency and omen: their silvery bodies glint like coins flipped by an indifferent cosmos while rival iron steamers grunt through fjords thick with guano and fog. Love, here, is no lantern but a grappling hook; every caress leaves rust on the skin, every vow is seasoned with glacier grit. Betrayal arrives cloaked in eulogies of snow, and the finale—a gory ballet of nets, knives, and the incessant gull-shriek—etches onto the retina the savage knowledge that in the north, wealth is merely frozen blood waiting to thaw.
Synopsis
A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the woman he loves.
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