Lincoln's Bodyguard
In A Heroic Act Of Bravery Saves Our Beloved President! John Wilkes Booth Killed In Act Of Treason
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Publisher Description
National Indie Excellence Award Winner for Historical Fiction
Winner - Military Writers of America Silver Medal
International Book Award Winner for Historical Fiction
Alternative Version of American History—President Lincoln Saved from Assassination
In Lincoln's Bodyguard, an alternative version of American history, President Lincoln is saved from assassination. Though he prophesied his own death—the only way he believed the South would truly surrender—Lincoln never accounted for the heroics of his bodyguard, Joseph Foster.
The biracial son of a white man and Miami Indian mother, Joseph makes an enemy of the South by killing John Wilkes Booth and preventing the death of the president. His wife is murdered and his daughter kidnapped, sending Joseph on a revenge-fueled rampage to recover his daughter. When his search fails, he disappears. The nation falls into a simmering insurgency instead of an end to the War.
Years later, Joseph is still running from his past when he receives a letter from Lincoln pleading for help. The President has a secret mission. Pursued from the outset, Joseph turns to the only person who might help, the woman he abandoned years earlier. If he can win Molly over, he might just fulfill the President's urgent request, find his daughter, and maybe even return peace to the war-torn country.
Perfect for Civil War Buffs and all Fans of Historical Fiction
While the novels in the Lincoln's Bodyguard Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:
Lincoln's Bodyguard
Land of Wolves
Angel in the Fog
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In the prologue of Turner's first novel, an intriguing and plausible alternative history, Joseph Foster, a bodyguard in the presidential box at Ford's Theatre on the night of Apr. 14, 1865, prevents John Wilkes Booth from assassinating Lincoln. Seven years later, however, the Civil War still simmers as a guerilla conflict. Foster, who left Washington after saving the president's life, returns to D.C. in response to a summons from Lincoln, now in his third term. The president, a shadow of his former self ("the office had drained him, pulling his very essence from the shell of his suit"), is worried about a traitor in the White House passing secrets to the Confederates. Meanwhile, Col. William Norris, a leader of the resistance who headed the Confederate Secret Service, offers to end the fighting. Despite Norris's role in planning Booth's murderous mission, Lincoln wants Foster to meet with him. The plot twists of this imaginative what-if will keep readers guessing.
