RaveThe Financial Times... [a] nail-biting climax ...This is by far Harris’s best book since An Officer and a Spy, which dealt with another great national division: the Dreyfus case. He has produced a ripping page-turner that breathes all the complexities and moral nuances of the Civil War period. There are no heroes here, just human beings struggling to make their way through the chaotic backlash of a civic cataclysm. If there is a moral, it is a simple one: sometimes it really is better to let sleeping dogs lie.
