By TJ Turner
2016 overseas ebook Award Winner Fiction: Historical
In Lincoln's Bodyguard, an alternate model of yankee heritage, President Lincoln is kept from assassination. notwithstanding he prophesied his personal demise the one method he believed the South would really hand over Lincoln by no means accounted for the heroics of his bodyguard, Joseph Foster. A biracial mixture of white and Miami Indian, Joseph makes an enemy of the South via killing John Wilkes sales space and combating the loss of life of the president. His spouse is murdered and his daughter abducted, sending Joseph on a revenge-fueled rampage to get better his daughter. whilst his seek fails, he disappears because the state falls right into a simmering insurgency rather than an finish to the conflict. Years later, Joseph remains to be operating from his earlier while he gets a letter from Lincoln pleading for support. The President has a mystery venture. Pursued from the outset, Joseph turns to the single one who may help, the girl he deserted years prior. If he can win Molly over, he may perhaps simply satisfy the President s pressing request, locate his daughter, and perhaps even hasten the top of the War.
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