The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War

by Daniel Stashower

Book Overview

"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." -- Harlan Coben Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award-winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl , uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War in THE HOUR OF PERIL. In February of 1861, just days before he assumed the presidency, Abraham Lincoln faced a "clear and fully-matured" threat...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312600224
• ISBN13: 9780312600228
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"