John A. Bray
ASIN: B00B3F0524
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 246
A great nation is at war with itself.A young and penniless boy - Johnny Madigan - lies about his age to become a Union Soldier. But after fighting his way through some of the most brutal conflicts of the American Civil War and surviving terrible wounds Johnny Madigan now faces an even deadlier battlefield.He must fight on the Home Front. Johnny has proved himself a skilled spy. His commanders send him back to to New York to penetrate an underground counterfeiting gang supplying forged US currency to the enemy South. As he infiltrates the deadly cabal of plotters, he is sent to Canada where a murderous Confederate spy ring is plotting an armed uprising to take over New York City and hold it hostage - and so win the War for the Confederacy. But in Canada, it is impossible for Johnny to tell which side is which.Suspected by some of the plotters, he is seduced by the beautiful Letitia – ...