They called him a loser. He was the "butcher" who won the Civil War because he sacrificed his own soldiers-who trusted him-because he was inhumane. Or so the conspirators of 1869 would have you believe. Right before they kill America's new, young, popular president, and their many other targets. In this richly imagined novel-which reveals for the first time a missing but vital twelve hours of American history-U.S. Grant is roughhousing with his eleven-year-old son. He's cancelling his 13-year-old daughter's alarming party plans. And he's flirting with his beloved Julia. And then the murderers strike. Only four years since Lincoln's death, someone has plans-and it looks like revolution. But who? And why? In this action-packed suspense thriller, the ordinary man who somehow became the most beloved figure of the 19th century, must unravel a conspiracy that was decades in the planning-if he can stay alive. As the novel surges from former slave auction houses to theatres modeled after Appomattox, from the deathtrap of the half-finished Washington Monument to a bizarre simulacrum of the White House, Grant and his best friend, the incendiary William Sherman, are pushed to the limits of their endurance and wits to uncover the greatest threat the United States has ever faced-never revealed until now. The Conspiracy of 1869 reveals a bloody coup staged against a landslide president of our nation. It actually never happened. Or did it?
11 parts