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New Release: Hail Columbia! by Jack Martin

Fans of Jack Martin's "Alphonso Clay Murder Mystery" Series of the Civil War rejoice! Fireship Press has just released the fifth book of the series -- a fascinating departure from the usual Civil War battlefields and a look at the Reconstruction. Alphonso Clay returns with a new and troubling case to solve.

Jack Martin, Hail Columbia!, Alphonso Clay Mystery: In 1869, four years after the Civil War has ended, Southerners bristle under the authority of a military government. Embittered Confederate veterans secretly form the Ku Klux Klan to fight what they perceive as their unjust oppression by the North. However, President Ulysses S. Grant views the Klan as a dangerous organization, using arson and murder to destroy the newly won rights of former slaves and sabotage Washington's authority in the South. Seeking to break the back of the Klan without returning the country to the destruction of the Civil War, Grant turns to his most trusted agent, Major Alphonso Brutus Clay, to find a solution to end the clan's violent activities in the South. (Historical Fiction) October, 2012

New Release: Jack Martin and The Battle Hymn of the Republic: An Alphonso Clay Murder Mystery

Fireship Press is pleased to announce the release of Jack Martin's fourth book in the engrossing Civil War series, The Alphonso Clay Murder Mysteries:

Jack Martin, Battle Hymn of the Republic: An Alphonso Clay Murder Mystery: The Fourth Book in the Alphonso Clay Civil War Mystery Series . The murderer of our late beloved president, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large. April 1865. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia has surrendered to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. The Civil War is all but over, the Union victorious. However, a sinister plot has been hatched to restart the war, and the assassination of Lincoln is only the beginning. The consequences could cost hundreds of thousands of civilian lives and tear the country apart forever. Colonel Alphonso Clay has been tasked by the Secretary of State to thwart this conspiracy at all costs. Aided by a beautiful, mysterious agent he embarks upon a dangerous journey into the heart of a cult even older than the United States that is determined to destroy the country. If they fail in their task, all that has been gained in four years of savage combat will be lost. (Historical Fiction, Civil War Fiction)