Silver Cross
A Novel
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
History professor Nick Journey and federal agent Meg Tolman return in Silver Cross, the thrilling sequel to B. Kent Anderson's Cold Glory.
When her friend is murdered, Tolman rushes to North Carolina to investigate. She finds a vast conspiracy hanging on a letter from Napoleon III to Confederate president Jefferson Davis, pledging French aid to the Confederacy for the "Silver Cross." The letter was lost when confederate spy Rose Greenhow drowned just yards from Confederate soil.
Tolman asks history professor Nick Journey for his help, and soon the two are following a treasure map deep into the west Texas desert. Hot on their trail are others desperately trying to cover up the existence of the Silver Cross, including Ann Gray, a freelance assassin gone rogue, and her former employers, a secretive group known only as the Associates.
As horrifying acts of domestic terrorism erupt throughout the country, Journey and Tolman seek an answer to the 150-year-old riddle before it's too late.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Anderson offers variations on a theme in this solid sequel to 2011's Cold Glory. Once again, Meg Tolman, deputy director but effective head of an X-Files like federal agency, the Research and Investigations Office, teams with history professor Nick Journey after the discovery of a Civil War era document is connected with a suspicious death. In a prologue set in 1864, Confederate spy Rose Greenhow drowns near the mouth of North Carolina's Cape Fear River while attempting to insure the safety of a letter of support from Napoleon III to Jefferson Davis. In the present, Tolman is shocked to learn that her cellist friend, Dana Cable, has suffered a fatal accident while walking on a seawall near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. At Cable's funeral, an unknown woman slips Tolman an envelope containing the letter Greenhow was trying to deliver. Those looking for something similar but superior to David Golemon's Event Group novels will be rewarded.
