Preface; Introduction: Ride the High Country or "They Went Thataway"; Cowboy Codes: Straight & Pure & All Boy; When We were Young: Nostalgia & the Cowboy Hero; Arms & the Man: The Friendly Gun; Give Me My Boots & Saddles: Camp Cowboy; Tall in the Saddle: Romance on the Range; White Hats & White Heroes: Who Is That Other Guy?; Virgin Land: Landscape, Nature, & Masculinity; Corporate Cowboys & the Shaping of a Nation; Postscript - The Frontiersman (1938); List of Films Mentioned; References; Index.
Don Easton is a former RCMP undercover operative who has crossed paths with foreign spies working in Canada and abroad. The Benefactor is Easton's eighth Jack Taggart Mystery, following Loose Ends , Above Ground , Angel in the Full Moon , Samurai Code , Dead Ends , Birds of a Feather , and Corporate Asset. .
"Undercover Mountie Jack Taggart is back with a story that takes him from the seedy underground in Vancouver to the sumptuous criminal haunts of Tokyo...This one is Easton's best so far." -- Globe and Mail (Canada) August 2010
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