Flint

A man who left the West at seventeen, trailing a violent past, became one of the richest and most hated financiers in the East. In Louis L'Amour's western, Flint returns to New Mexico, sick with incurable cancer, meaning to die alone. Instead he is drawn into an all-out range war when he decides to stand with Nancy Kerrigan, who owns a ranch nearby. Meanwhile a cold-eyed speculator is planning an enormous land swindle, with Buckdun, a notorious assassin, to back him, and Flint's money, connections and gun may be all that can save her ranch. He still has the will to fight, but his time is running out.

Marvin Liao of 500 Startups named it among the non-business books he rereads every year for their writing and stories, finding new details each time.