About the Book

A historian’s brutal murder on a quiet Florida island leads FBI Agent Jason Sparks to documents that should have remained buried—proof of an 1859 partnership that could destroy one of America’s largest defense contractors and derail a presidential campaign. As Sparks digs deeper, he realizes the investigation threatens not just careers but lives, with danger emerging from the most trusted corners of government.

In 1864, Union Colonel Andrew Brison accepts a covert mission from President Lincoln to investigate industrialist Augustus Raven, whose factories supply crucial weapons for the war effort. But Raven harbors deadly secrets of his own. When Brison’s investigation uncovers a conspiracy that could alter the course of the war, he must choose between following orders and preventing a catastrophe.

Two men separated by 160 years pursue the same dangerous truth. Both discover that in America’s corridors of power, the greatest threats often come from within. From the author of Bronze Medal winner Beneath Hallowed Ground comes a thriller that proves corruption is the one inheritance that never fades.