The Murder of Willie Lincoln is an exciting historical fiction
debut by award-winning political journalist Burt Solomon.
Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there
seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President
of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved
land together. But Lincoln's will and soul are tested when tragedy
strikes the White House as Willie Lincoln, the love and shining
light in the president's heart, is taken by typhoid fever. But was
this really the cause of his death? A message arrives, suggesting
otherwise. Lincoln asks John Hay, his trusted aide--and almost a
son--to investigate Willie's death. Some see Hay as a
gadfly--adventurous, incisive, lusty, reflective, skeptical, even
cynical--but he loves the president and so seeks the truth behind
the boy's death. And so, as we follow Hay in his investigation, we
are shown the loftiest and lowest corners of Washington City, from
the president's office and the gentleman's dining room at Willard's
Hotel to the alley hovels, wartime hospitals, and the dome-less
Capitol's vermin-infested subbasement. We see the unfamiliar sides
of a grief-stricken president, his hellcat of a wife, and their two
surviving and suffering sons, and Hay matches wits with such
luminaries as General McClellan, William Seward, and the
indomitable detective Allan Pinkerton. What Hay discovers has the
potential of not only destroying Lincoln, but a nation.
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