'Robert Brodie was always a practical man. It helped him survive the war as a Texan Confederate – as a miner in Death Valley – and now as a muleskinner hauling borax across one of the most inhospitable places on the earth’s surface.
'So, when an old Indian bestows the Divine Wind upon him from Tanka the Great Spirit, it is accepted with both bewilderment and scepticism. Especially, as Brodie is trapped under a four-ton borax wagon at the time and expecting to die of thirst …'
Source: Publisher's blurb.