In this historically accurate Civil War novel, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass partner with Chesapeake Pilot Zachariah Clark to thwart a plan of Robert E. Lee's to move an army past the Union blockade of the Chesapeake Bay and thereby change the outcome of the war. Each side in the conflict was forced to develop its own spy network and espionage strategies. Both sides needed new strategies and tactics, since nearly all the officers on both sides had received the same training at one of the two service academies at West Point and Annapolis. Almost none of the officers and ordinary soldiers had any experience fighting a war against an opponent who was well-equipped and well-trained.
Lurking in the background is John Wilkes Booth who devised three separate plots to either kidnap or kill the President, one of the plots involved international partners, to remove President Lincoln from office either by kidnapping or by assassination.
Three of these men lived near one another in Baltimore near its waterfront, and may, in fact may have met.
