A MORE PERFECT UNION

by Robert Stapp ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, 1970

Stay with this adventure-suspense embroilment long enough and the farflung parts will eventually converge for action. It seems that Lincoln bumbled and there is a Confederate States, ruled over by demagogue President Spearman who runs a tight ship based on a selective stratification of citizenship. The countries of the world, led for once by the U.N., had chucked the nuclear race, but the Confederate States, nursing old wounds, was busily screwing on warheads for an attack on the United States. The solution lies in removing Spearman via assassination. The man chosen for the job is Cordell Vance, shipped from the Confederacy as a child by his lawyer-father who chose to stay and fight for freedom. Schooled by a Security psychiatrist and given a new face and identity, Vance completes the mission, is reunited with his father and the girl he loves, elects to stay on in the Confederacy undetected. Swallow the historical diddling and it goes down easy.

Pub Date: May 1, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper's Magazine Press

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION