Lincoln’s Bodyguard
TJ Turner
Oceanview, Apr 7 2015, $26.95
ISBN 9781608091430
On April 14, 1865 at the Ford Theater in Washington DC, John
Wilkes Booth attempts to assassinate President Lincoln. Bodyguard Joseph Foster immediately reacts to
the threat and saves the life of the president.
By 1872, a strife weary Lincoln nears the end of his third term in
office and though the War Between the States officially ended in 1865,
Confederate insurgents continue to fight using guerilla and terrorist tactics
while the Union increasingly turns to military rule. However, Southern resistance leader Colonial
William Norris makes an overture to end the conflict as the nation nears
collapse. Lincoln asks Foster to return
to the capital to determine who the White House traitor is and to meet with
Norris.
This fascinating alternative history is a clever spin on the
Lincoln assassination with the premise that if the president lived he would be
not much more powerful than Andrew Johnson was.
The extrapolation of Congress’ efforts to punish the rebels, and some in
the South’s refusal to surrender provides background to this gritty exciting historical fiction.
Harriet Klausner
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