from oldman

Manhunt by James L. Swanson is the story of Lincoln's assassination, the pursuit of John Wilkes Booth and the repersussions of those events. The books fly and several pages of quotes inside describe the book a as written as a can't-put -down mystery thriller. I would agree, I had a difficult time...

from hannahbond

Swanson did a very nice job with this book. The level of detail provided about the assassination of Lincoln and the subsequent hunt for his killers makes it "real" to a modern reader. It reads like a suspense thriller -- very engaging until the end. One small complaint is that I would have apprec...

from mrtall

Manhunt recounts the fascinating and extremely eventful - sometimes almost bizarre - fortnight from the point at which John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln to his eventual capture. I'm not a Civil War history buff, so although I knew the general story, there was a great deal of detail here that...

from Gary10

Fascinating story of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the subsequent search for John Wilkes Booth through the Maryland countryside and into Virginia. Stranger than fiction in many ways. The confusion of what to do with the dying president after the shooting, the bizarre plot led by Booth,...

from noblechicken

A pretty thorough moment by moment read of the 12 day chase to catch Booth, from the perspective of Booth. A lot of gaps in the time line compiled and filled here to make quite an interesting read. A history not completely documented but speculated upon here with some good evidence, but mostly re...