内容简介：
The Mother Lode is a novel adventure with terribly surprising events and protagonists; as well as with a truly adifferenta antagonistathe odd leader of an odd group. The apparent hero of the story is upstaged by his girlfriend and two ex-girlfriends, in concert, at the climax attempting a rescue. First, the odd group of businessmen who live in a secluded company town in Californiaas Sierra Mountains, takes a small town near Modesto hostage for the retraction of an IRS tax audit. The takeover is done peacefullyaanother grand surpriseawith the use of the townas own nostalgic railroad. Next in a flashback, an innocent graduate of UC Santa Cruz (the hero) becomes incidentally involved with the strange group and the groupas financial officeraa beautiful, but older, Argentinean ladyawho seduces the hero into an unusual carnal aarrangementa while maintaining a nebulous, but lucrative, business arrangement. Lastly, three ladies and one guy try rescuing the town from its hostage situation with a helicopter. (Perhaps they succeed.)