PUBLISHED/Forge thriller
Silver Cross
B. Kent Anderson
Meg Tolman is settling into her new job as the head of the U.S. Government’s low-profile Research and Investigations Office (RIO), when she receives a strange call: Dana Cable, an old friend and fellow musician, a woman she hasn’t seen in nearly a decade, has been badly injured in a suspicious accident and is asking for her.
When she arrives in Missouri, she finds the grave markers of Cable’s two older brothers. Both were only in their thirties when they died. Both died within the past three years. Further driven by her friend’s dying words, Tolman begins to look into the deaths of the three Cable siblings, discovering a historical mystery of epic proportions.
She connects her friend’s family to the infamous Rose Greenhow, famed Confederate spy during the Civil War. On finding the Civil War connection, Tolman turns to her friend and “consultant” Nick Journey, professor and historian. The single father of a child with profound autism, and a man with demons in his own life, Journey teaches at a small Oklahoma college. Together they begin to unravel the mystery connecting the three seemingly doomed siblings, and the legendary spy who died a bizarre death in 1864.
They begin to piece together the puzzle, finding a secret that Greenhow protected with her life, a letter from Napoleon III to Jefferson Davis, a letter that promised French assistance to the Confederacy, in return for France being granted title to the “Silver Cross.” The letter, which never reached Davis, could have altered the outcome of the war, changing the balance of power forever.
When she arrives in Missouri, she finds the grave markers of Cable’s two older brothers. Both were only in their thirties when they died. Both died within the past three years. Further driven by her friend’s dying words, Tolman begins to look into the deaths of the three Cable siblings, discovering a historical mystery of epic proportions.
She connects her friend’s family to the infamous Rose Greenhow, famed Confederate spy during the Civil War. On finding the Civil War connection, Tolman turns to her friend and “consultant” Nick Journey, professor and historian. The single father of a child with profound autism, and a man with demons in his own life, Journey teaches at a small Oklahoma college. Together they begin to unravel the mystery connecting the three seemingly doomed siblings, and the legendary spy who died a bizarre death in 1864.
They begin to piece together the puzzle, finding a secret that Greenhow protected with her life, a letter from Napoleon III to Jefferson Davis, a letter that promised French assistance to the Confederacy, in return for France being granted title to the “Silver Cross.” The letter, which never reached Davis, could have altered the outcome of the war, changing the balance of power forever.
About the Author
Under the pseudonym David Kent, B. Kent Anderson authored Department Thirty (2003), The Mesa Conspiracy (2005), The Blackjack Conspiracy (2005) and The Triangle Conspiracy (2006), all published by Pocket Star Books. The Blackjack Conspiracy received the Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction in 2006. In addition to these publications, Mr. Anderson has had a thirty-year career as a broadcaster and more recently, a magazine journalist. In January 2009, he received two awards for magazine feature writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. B. Kent Anderson lives with his three sons in Oklahoma City, and is currently researching his next novel, which also features Journey, Tolman and RIO.
