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Product Description<br/><br/><br/>In 1863, Abraham Lincoln was shot. His body was wrapped in a blanket and transported on horseback to Washington, where it was quietly burned in an alley behind a government building. Capt. Jason Gosse narrates the story of one of the greatest cover-ups of all time, of the consequences of taking part, and of the satisfaction of vengeance for the murder of a man and an ideal.<br/><br/><br/>Review<br/><br/><br/>Erik Mortensen has produced riveting fiction in this account of what the narrator, Capt. Jason Gosse, describes as possibly the greatest government cover-up and conspiracy ever perpetrated. After Gosse and his fellow Union officer Kevin Hughes are seconded to serve as an honor guard for Abraham Lincoln, they find themselves immersed in a shady world of espionage in which simple divisions of Union and Confederacy and North and South dissolve. Political intrigue, deception and the gory violence of war fill this 84-page novella as Gosse and Hughes navigate their way through battlefields and encounter even more grim and vexing terrain when they stray from them, and into a conspiracy so deep and wide that Gosse finds himself questioning not only his putative allies and enemies, but also the deep-seated convictions that led him to enlist. A fast-paced novella that underlines the ambiguity of even the noblest of conflicts and explores one man s equivocal commitment to subterfuge in support of a principled objective the morale of the Union army and its supporters Avenging Abe marks a promising debut for a talented new author and imprint. --Dr. K.J. James, Professor of History, University of Guelph<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Erik Mortensen lives in Fergus, Ontario and is currently pursuing a double major in History and English at the University of Guelph. He has written several produced plays and is currently working on screenplays and a second novel, Divine Revolution. He has won the OECTA Provincial Young Authors awar