5.0 out of 5 stars
What if John Wilkes Booth had failed in his mission?
By Mike Taibbi

Alan Trock is an attorney by profession and an historian by lifelong passion, and in this time-travel imaginarium his careful lawyerly mind is liberated on a journey through history to consider an exquisite possibility: that the 16th president might be saved from the the assassin's bullets fired by John Wilkes Booth. For the reader, the willing suspension of disbelief leads not only to a story whose resolution seems more compelling with each turn of the page, but is also an opportunity to meet some of the principals in the narrative of those awful last days of President Lincoln's life. The author knows his Lincoln lore in fine detail, has been a student of the great man's life since his adolescence, and it shows. The journey his fictional alter-ego protagonist pursues is one he'd imagined over the years in a variety of iterations, and now he's put those wonderings on the page. If you like history, if you admire the legacy of the Great Emancipator, you will enjoy this story.