Lincoln's Secret Spy

[Jane Singer]

Getting close! My new book, Lincoln's Secret Spy: The Civil War Case That Changed the Future of Espionage will be released April 1st! The publicist at Lyons Press has sent galleys to a select few historians/scholars/lawyers for their blurbs.
Next they will send review copies ... Three years ago, I began the research. So many eurekas, so much microfilm! An historian's dream!

So proud of this blurb from Daniel Stowell, Director and Editor of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln:

"Beginning with a genuine pass written and signed by Abraham Lincoln, Singer and Stewart untangle the elaborate fraud perpetrated on the United States government by “Union spy” William Alvin Lloyd and his attorney, using that pass. Carefully distinguishing fact from fiction, half-truths from lies, the authors explain how a pro-Confederate con man, self-promoter, and bigamist emerged from the ruins of the Confederacy and converted a simple pass from the martyred President into gold—literally. And how after his death in 1869, his widow and attorney continued to press his claims in Congress and the Supreme Court, creating a doctrine that still affects claims by secret operatives today."

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And here is another blurb from Frank J. Williams Frank J. Williams, retired Chief Justice of the RI Supreme Court and Founding Chair of The Lincoln Forum.

The characters of our Civil War included a plethora of spies from the North, South and abroad. Most espoused loyalty to one side or the
other. Some were in the game because of the excitement of it. Others for greed.
This is the tale of a scoundrel who defies a label. Was William Alvin Lloyd President Lincoln’s espionage agent or was he a bounder taken with himself? One thing is certain, his claim for money for his alleged wartime service as a spy was decided in his favor by the Supreme Court – or was it? The authors,
in an entertaining and very readable way, attempt to sort fact from fiction by wrestling
with one of the conundrums of war.