The Lost Cause - Lincoln Assassination

<p><strong>The Lost Cause - Lincoln Assassination</strong></p><p><strong>Book 1 in the Lincoln Assassination Series</strong></p><p><strong>One shot shattered a nation. The next fourteen days would test its soul.</strong></p><p>Good Friday April 14 1865: a gun cracks inside Ford's Theatre and plunges Washington into chaos. As the President fights for life a charming actor vanishes into the night-and a frightened capital turns into a hunting ground. Telegraph lines hum. Cavalry boots thunder. Whispers of safe houses river crossings and secret sympathizers spread like wildfire.</p><p><em>The Lost Cause</em> hurls you into the manhunt that gripped America-through alleys and taverns across marsh and midnight ferry into farmhouses where a single knock could ruin a family forever. Every chapter tightens the net: coded notes wrong turns near misses and a final firelit standoff that will brand itself on history.</p><p>But the story doesn't end with smoke in a tobacco barn. In packed courtrooms the conspirators face the relentless machinery of military justice. Testimony clashes with rumor. Oaths are weighed against fear. And on a blistering July afternoon the gallows rise-taking with them answers the nation still craves.</p><p>Told with relentless momentum and the sharp detail of lived experience <em>The Lost Cause</em> delivers the assassination the two-week chase the trial the gallows-and the uneasy question beating beneath it all: how do you find truth when the witnesses are terrified the papers are hungry and the country itself is bleeding?</p><p><strong>If you love historical thrillers with crackling tension moral stakes and unforgettable atmosphere start here. The hunt has begun.</strong></p><p> </p><p> </p>