Tom Wilson is a brilliant storyteller. This is how it was...
--Larry Bond

"Black Serpent" is set in Northern California, and opens with a scene showing blood-thirsty pirates taking over a fortune in gold that's being transported by coastwise schooner (from mines farther up the coast) to San Francisco. The bad guys are renegade Indians, Russians, Mexicanos and whites (all true), members of a bloodthirsty and terror- instilling group called Sociedad Serpientes.

When a respected U.S. Senator is found dead-killed by his own people, the Manido-Ojibwe tribe-a treaty prevents the FBI from investigating the crime. Enter Native American covert operative Link Anderson, who is determined to find the killer. But the facts surrounding the senator's grisly fate lead Link down a trail of deception and murder-where one ruthless man is prepared to destroy anyone who stands in his way.