The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--and Why It Failed [Paperback]

Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, the bestselling authors ofThe First Conspiracy,which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on the sixteenth president inThe Lincoln Conspiracy.

Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincolns assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration.

The conspirators were part of a white supremacist secret society that didnt want an abolitionist in the White House. They planned an elaborate scheme to assassinate the President-elect in Baltimore as Lincolns inauguration train passed through, en route to the nation's capital. The plot was investigated by famed detective Allan Pinkerton, who infiltrated the group with undercover agents, including Kate Warne, one of the first female private detectives in America.

Had the assassination succeeded, there would have been no Lincoln Presidency and the course of the Civil War and American history would have forever been altered.

BRAD MELTZERis the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Escape Artist, The Inner Circle,and many other bestselling thrillers, as well as the Ordinary People Change the World series. He is also the host of the History Channel TV shows Brad Meltzers Decoded and Brad Meltzers Lost History,which he used to help find the missing 9/11 flag that the firefighters raised at Ground Zero.

JOSH MENSCHis aNew York Timesbestselling author and documentary television producer with a focus on American history and culture. He is coauthor with Brad Meltzer ofThe First Conspiracy: the Secret Plot to Kill George Washington. For television he has written, directed, and been a showrunner on nonfiction series for PBS, the History Channel, National Geographic, an