Author of The Regent, Mountain of Light, Centenarians, Lessons My Father Taught Me, Steel, Road to Rust, The Scottish Rite Cathedral (co-authored with Rob Cummings), New Castle’s Kadunce Murders, Death at the Cecil Hotel, and Chuck Tanner and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Steel portrays the growth of the iron and steel industry in smoke-filled Pittsburgh during the 19th century. This fast-paced saga tells the story of millionaire titans Andrew Carnegie, Ben Franklin Jones, Henry Clay Frick, Henry Phipps, Henry Oliver, and Charles Schwab – strong-willed men who often schemed against each other – yet united to halt the union activity of their underpaid and undervalued workforce. The juxtaposition of the haves and have-nots led to bloody battles across Western Pennsylvania’s plants, mines, and railroads.