Massacre on the Merrimack

Now in paperback! <BR /><BR /><ul><li>Awarded honors in nonfiction by the Massachusetts Book Award.</li><li>A riveting true story of murder captivity revenge and escape</li></ul>Told with narrative skill and exquisite historical detail Massacre on the Merrimack examines a dark period in America’s past and the bloody deeds of Hannah Duston who escaped her Native American captors and returned to her settlement of Haverhill Massachusetts with a collection of scalps. <BR /><BR />Jay Atkinson is the author of eight books. He has written for the New York Times Boston Globe Newsday Men’s Health and Boston Globe magazine. He lives in Methuen Massachusetts.