David O Stewart

The Lincoln Deception David O Stewart

Publisher Marketing: In March 1900, as former Congressman John Bingham of Ohio lies dying, he begins to tell a strange tale to his physician, Dr. Jamie Fraser. Bingham famously prosecuted eight members of John Wilkes Booth's plot to kill Lincoln. But during the 1865 trial, conspirator Mary Surratt divulged a secret so explosive it could shatter the republic. Though Bingham takes the secret to his grave, Fraser cannot let go of the mystery. Bored with small-town medical practice, he begins to investigate, securing an unlikely ally in Speed Cook, a black, college-educated professional ballplayer and would-be newspaper publisher. Cook is fascinated by Fraser's inquiry and, like Fraser, thinks the accepted version of Lincoln's assassination rings false. Was Booth truly the mastermind or were other, more powerful forces pulling the strings? From Maryland to New York City, from Indiana to Washington, Fraser and Cook track down key figures and witnesses-including Mary Surratt's neurotic daughter Anna, Booth's nephew, actor Creston Clarke, and Clarke's attractive business manager, Mrs. Eliza Scott. Piece by piece the truth emerges separating fact from rumor, innocent from guilty, and revealing a story of greed, ambition, courage, and tragedy. Blending real and fictional characters, "The Lincoln Deception" is a superbly researched, brilliantly plotted and thoroughly gripping mystery that explores one of the nation's darkest and most fascinating eras and the conspiracy that changed world history." Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/22/2013 (EAN 9780758290670, Paperback) Romantic Times 09/01/2013 pg. 80 (EAN 9780758290670, Paperback) Library Journal 09/01/2013 pg. 92 (EAN 9780758290670, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Stewart, David O David O. Stewart is an award-winning author and the president of the Washington Independent Review of Books". He is the author of several acclaimed histories, including The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution "as well as Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy, " and American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America". Stewart's most recent book, his first novel, is The Lincoln Deception".