Last Flag Down

As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864 the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to sink the U.S. merchant fleet. The raider''s name was Shenandoah and her executive officer was Conway Whittle a 24-year-old warrior. Whittle would share command with a dark and brooding veteran of the seas Captain James Waddell and together with their crew they would spend nearly a year destroying dozens of Union ships all while continually dodging the enemy. Then in August of 1865 a British ship revealed the shocking truth to the men of Shenandoah: the war had been over for months and they were now being hunted as pirates. What ensued was an incredible 15000-mile journey to the one place the crew hoped to find sanctuary only to discover that their fate would depend on how they answered a single question. Wondrously evocative Last Flag Down is a riveting story of courage nobility and rare comradeship forged in the quest to achieve the impossible.