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Henry Holt and Co.
March 2008
On Sale: March 4, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 0805082786
EAN: 9780805082784
Hardcover
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This romantic adventure conjures up the passionate life
story of the Civil War era's legendary private eye,
recounting dramatic exploits and his clandestine love
affair with his partner Allan Pinkerton's story opens in
Chicago on the eve of the American Civil War. After
battling con men, train robbers, and vicious gunmen,
Pinkerton senses that change is in the air. Already
committed to the abolitionist cause and the Underground
Railroad, he allies himself with John Brown's radical
antislavery crusade. Upholding the law with one hand, he
unapologetically breaks it with the other. Kate Warne
joins the Pinkerton Agency-its first female detective- and
quickly takes her place as Allan's closest confidante. He
asks Kate to join him, and she embraces his cause in all
its contradictions and extremes. Comrades-in-arms, their
romantic passion becomes the most combustible and
irresistible kind, the mutual affirmation of a world of
two. Together they save the life of Abraham Lincoln on his
inaugural journey to Washington, root out Confederate
spies within the Union government, and establish the
nation's first Secret Service, sending their agents deep
behind enemy lines. Blind to all consequences, the secret
lovers learn too late that some battles, no matter how
right the cause, cannot be won.
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