ISBN: 0765349434 9780765349439

Category: Fiction / Alternative History

Page count: 304

On April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater, or so the history books tell us ... but what if there was a second gunman who actually pulled the trigger?<br><i>The Curse of Cain</i><br>Like <i>The Day of the Jackal</i>, <i>The Eagle has Landed</i>, and <i>The Key to Rebecca</i>, <i>The Curse of Cain</i> is the cat and mouse story of a ruthless professional assassin hired to kill the Union President and the Confederate agent dispatched by Jefferson Davis to thwart his plan.<br>Like Forsyth's Jackal, Follett's Needle, and Higgins's Devlin, the assassin-Basil Tarleton-is a charming agent of death. Jack Tanner-a Confederate era Jack Ryan, is willing to forego matters of the heart in order to carry out his mission and save the life of the President of an opposing nation.<br>Set in the closing weeks of the Civil War and against the backdrop of the notorious Lincoln conspiracy (and subsequent cover-up) as well as the actual Confederate intelligence network that existed in Washington, D.C. at the time, Powell and Meagher tell a heart-stopping tale of suspense and intrigue. This dangerous mission follows assassin and pursuer, as they close in on their targets in enemy territory where exposure means certain death.<br><i>The Curse of Cain</i> races to the page-turning climax on that fateful night at Ford's Theater. <br>