Search Results: Returned 7 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 7
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2006., Adult, Warner Books Call No: FIC MEL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A two-hundred-year-old code devised by Thomas Jefferson becomes the key to a present-day conspiracy at the highest levels of Washington and the power elite of Palm Beach.
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-- 5th assassin2013., Adult, Grand Central Pub. Call No: FIC MEL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins' crimes.
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2019., Adults, Flatiron Books Call No: HIST 973.4 1092 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York William Tryon and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: George Washington himself. This is the story of the secret plot and how it was revealed. It is a story of leaders, liars, counterfeiters, and jailhouse confessors. It also shows just how hard the battle was for George Washington--and how close America was to losing the Revolutionary War. Taking place during the most critical period of our nation's birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington's character, but also illuminates the origins of America's counterintelligence movement that led to the modern day CIA"--
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2020., Adults, Flatiron Books Call No: POL 973.7092 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The bestselling authors of The 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 President Lincoln Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's 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 pro-Southern secret society that didn't want an antislavery President in the White House. They planned an elaborate scheme to assassinate the brand new President in Baltimore as Lincoln's inauguration train passed through en route to the Capitol. The plot was investigated by famed detective Allan Pinkerton, who infiltrated the group with undercover agents, including 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"--
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2002., Adult, Warner Books Inc. Call No: FIC MEL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Two brothers work at a bank, when they are fired they steal an account worth 3 million dollars. What invisible strings were attached to it. A friend is dead. How are the brothers going to prove they are innocent.
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2015., Adults, Grand Central Publishing Call No: FIC MEL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Beecher White Volume: 3Summary Note: "Following The Inner Circle and The Fifth Assassin, Brad Meltzer returns with the next novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Culper Ring series. Beecher White makes an alarming discovery on the White House grounds: there is a severed arm buried in the Rose Garden. As he investigates, he realizes it's a message one that may have dire repercussions for the President. Even worse, the message turns Beecher's personal life upside down, pointing him towards the dark truth about his father's death"--
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c2004., Adult, Warner Books Call No: FIC MEL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Bored congressional aides Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are invited to join the Zero Game, a contest in which players bet on seemingly inconsequential matters such as how many times a senator will say a certain word, but they find themselves pursued by a determined assassin when they question the outcome of what they thought was a sure-thing wager on the sale of an abandoned South Dakota gold mine.