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A Union general's senseless murder is swiftly cloaked in lies, and the evidence points to Irish laborers struggling to find a place in their new homeland. Washington intrigue and industrial corruption collide with hints of rural witchcraft and the sorrows of political exile in this Civil War novel by Owen Parry. From Publishers Weekly Grave robbing and witches provide the atmospheric overture as Maj. Abel Jones, agent for Abraham Lincoln, investigates the murder of a Northern general in his fifth suspenseful adventure. In the preceding novel, Honor's Kingdom, the diminutive Welshman was in England working for the Union's interests, but here he returns home to "dear Pottsville" in Pennsylvania. Jones must journey deeper into coal country when Gen. Carl Stone, who had been recruiting Irish miners for the Union army, is found slain. The confessed killer has died of cholera, but a cautionary check of his grave finds interred instead the body of a young woman who has been stabbed to death. The intrigue thus triggered brings Jones up against a mad priest, local witch women and the tight-knit society of the Irish mining community (among its members is Black Jack Kehoe, later notorious in

Author

Ralph Peters (as Owen Parry)

Publisher

Stackpole Books

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811748551

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities