A fascinating and vivid account of the escape of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin, takes you along on an intensive search from the streets of Washington, D.C., through the swamps of Maryland, into the forests of Virginia, and into the lives of the men who pursued him.
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