Gold Mine

Rod Ironsides, ambitious and hard-living mining expert, knows that the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay.

Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of the realization of dreams and ambitions, which include the destruction of the mind itself.