No Certain Rest - Hardcover

Lehrer, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375503722 ISBN 13: 9780375503726

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2002

Synopsis

The discovery of the grave of an unknown Union officer on the Antietam battlefield leads Parks Department archaeologist Dan Spaniel into a baffling historical mystery, after finding out that the man had been murdered and his identity concealed.

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Review:

"No Certain Rest reads like Antietam: blood-soaked, fast-charging, filled with twists, and as hauntingly irresistible to a Civil War buff as the battle itself." --Tony Horwitz

"[A] smoothly told story about courage and cowardice on the battlefield." --Alan Cheuse (NPR), The Dallas Morning News

"[Lehrer] writes quirky thrillers, swiftly paced with a cleverly concealed solution. . . . [No Certain Rest is] a rousing tale of intrigue."--Jeremy C. Shea, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"The heart of No Certain Rest [and] its most riveting passages [are] presented as excerpts from memoirs written by Union soldiers and veterans. The first-person voices are consistently compelling. They paint vivid tableaux; they shine with the truthfulness, hard-held values and modesty of an unrecoverable age."
--Kai Maristed, Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

No Certain Rest is Jim Lehrer’s thirteenth novel. He has also written two memoirs and three plays. The executive editor and anchor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, he lives with his wife, Kate, in Washington, D.C. They have three daughters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375503722
• ISBN 13: 9780375503726
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 222