All Other Nights: A Novel

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice "Slam-bang.…superb." ―Washington PostHow is tonight different from all other nights? For Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, it is a question his commanders have already answered for him―on Passover, 1862, he is ordered to murder his own uncle in New Orleans, who is plotting to assassinate President Lincoln.

After this harrowing mission, Jacob is recruited to pursue another enemy agent, the daughter of a Virginia family friend.

But this time, his assignment isn’t to murder the spy, but to marry her.

Their marriage, with its riveting and horrifying consequences, reveals the deep divisions that still haunt American life today.