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Assassin of shadows : a novel
- Title
- Assassin of shadows : a novel / Lawrence Goldstone.
- Author
- Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-
- Publication
- New York : Pegasus Crime, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-7944 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 275 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Just after 4 p.m. on September 6, 1901, twenty-eight year old anarchist Leon Czolgosz pumped two shots into the chest and abdomen of President William McKinley. Czolgosz had been on a receiving line waiting to shake the president's hand, his revolver concealed in an oversized bandage covering his right hand and wrist. McKinley had two Secret Service agents by his side, but neither made a move to stop the assailant. After he was apprehended, Czolgosz said simply, "I done my duty."Both law enforcement and the press insisted that Czolgosz was merely the tip of a vast and murderous conspiracy, likely instigated by the "high priestess of anarchy," Emma Goldman. To untangle its threads and bring the remaining conspirators to justice, the president's most senior advisors choose two other Secret Service agents, Walter George and Harry Swayne. What they uncover will not only absolve the anarchists, but also expose a plot that will threaten the foundations of American democracy, and likely cost them their lives.As in his other brilliant novels combining history and fiction, Lawrence Goldstone creates a remarkable and chilling tableau, filled with suspense and unexpected turns of fate, detailing events that actually might have happened. As Publishers Weekly observed in its starred review of the "exceptional thriller," Deadly Cure, "Goldstone again blends fact and fiction seamlessly."
- Subjects
- United States
- McKinley, William, 1843-1901
- Anarchists
- Conspiracies
- Conspiracies > Fiction
- Politics and government
- United States > Politics and government > 1901-1909 > Fiction
- Assassination
- 1901-1909
- McKinley, William, 1843-1901 > Assassination > Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- United States > Secret Service > Fiction
- Fiction
- Anarchists > United States > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Call Number
- JFE 19-7944
- ISBN
- 9781643131306
- 1643131303
- OCLC
- 1054002536
- Author
- Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947- author.
- Title
- Assassin of shadows : a novel / Lawrence Goldstone.
- Publisher
- New York : Pegasus Crime, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1901-1909
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-7944