The Man in the Barn: Digging Up Lincoln's Killer

The Man in the Barn: Digging Up Lincolns Killer is a provocative modern thriller that explores the mystery behind John Wilkes Booths death. On April 14 1865 John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln in the back of the head at Fords Theatre in Washington D.C. Afterwards Booth jumped to the stage and shouted Sic semper tyrannis and miraculously managed to flee the capital on horseback with a broken leg. Twelve days later Union forces surrounded the assassin and shot him dead at Richard Garretts barn in Virginia. Thats what the history books will tell you. But for over a century others have argued a political conspiracy reaching the highest levels of government perpetrated the greatest hoax ever played on the American public...and that Booth who was working on behalf of the vice-president escaped. In The Man in the Barn: Digging Up Lincolns Killer an ambitious young journalist Daniel Boland believes he has discovered the true story behind those historic events. With the reluctant aid of his friend Dr. Al Pearson a disgraced former psychiatrist Boland sets out to reveal a cover-up - past and present - of epic proportions. But in doing so Boland and Pearson traverse a very dangerous path...and the closer they get to the truth the more perilous their journey becomes.