Publisher's Synopsis
LEE STRIKES BACK!
After a terrible setback at Gettysburg, General RobertE. Lee does not retreat across the Potomac and his ultimate surrender atAppomattox. Instead, he turns the tables on Union General George Meade with avicious counterattack that sets the Union Army on its heels.
While Lee setsacross Pennsylvania in a dazzling war of maneuver, a crazed actor closes in onPresident Abraham Lincoln. Standing in his way is Major Steve Thorne, athoughtful lawyer-turned-soldier fighting for the Union and his ownself-respect, and Cassandra Baird, a young woman whose courage is only surpassedby her determination to teach emancipated slaves to read and write, and soensure their freedom.
Opposing them is Colonel Corey Wade, a braveConfederate officer who is just as determined to fight to the death for hishonor and that of his state. And, in the end, the fate of a nation may come downto a freed slave named Hadrian, a man with an iron resolve never to return tobondage.
The time has come to strike a blow for liberty-or go downswinging!
After a terrible setback at Gettysburg, General RobertE. Lee does not retreat across the Potomac and his ultimate surrender atAppomattox. Instead, he turns the tables on Union General George Meade with avicious counterattack that sets the Union Army on its heels.
While Lee setsacross Pennsylvania in a dazzling war of maneuver, a crazed actor closes in onPresident Abraham Lincoln. Standing in his way is Major Steve Thorne, athoughtful lawyer-turned-soldier fighting for the Union and his ownself-respect, and Cassandra Baird, a young woman whose courage is only surpassedby her determination to teach emancipated slaves to read and write, and soensure their freedom.
Opposing them is Colonel Corey Wade, a braveConfederate officer who is just as determined to fight to the death for hishonor and that of his state. And, in the end, the fate of a nation may come downto a freed slave named Hadrian, a man with an iron resolve never to return tobondage.
The time has come to strike a blow for liberty-or go downswinging!
