“Book Descriptions: “Against Overwhelming Odds” is the second saga of the Clint Carrigan Adventures. Clint is a daring and resourceful teamster who works the freight wagons along the Santa Fe Trail in the 1840s. Santa Fe is a bustling town at the end of the Santa Fe Trail under the control of Nuevo Mexico governor Manuel Armijo. Clint must manage the local freight office to handle cross-country and local freight deliveries while dealing with unscrupulous competing freighters dishonest soldiers, renegade Apache’s, and entitled rancheros. Clint plans to marry local beauty Maria. Clint’s brother Connor Carrigan, considered a fugitive by the governor, returns for the wedding and is the subject of a man-hunt. An expert with his fists, a Patterson Colt five-shot revolver and a Hawken rifle, Clint encounters attacks upon his men and wagons, theft of horses and merchandise, kidnap of new wife Maria, harassment and incarceration by dishonest soldiers, while often fighting against overwhelming odds. Can Clint Carrigan prevail against overwhelming odds to build a successful freight business in an area with fierce competitors vying for work? Will Clint and his freighters survive the depredations of renegade warrior tribes? Can he protect new wife Maria from the vengeance of spurned suitor’s family? Subjected to arrest by dishonest soldiers, how will Clint win his freedom?” DRIVE