Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Man Who Shot John Wilkes Booth | 2015 | Kevin G. Summers | Buy |
The Man Who Shot John Wilkes Booth is Kevin G. Summers’ complete novel version of his alternate history western, collecting the material from the original three serialized ebook installments into a single volume. Set in 1888, twenty-three years after Lincoln’s assassination, it follows Joshua Webb, a small-town New Hampshire newspaper editor with a reputation for asking uncomfortable questions.
Webb has spent years publishing pieces that challenge official accounts of Lincoln’s death. When Boston Corbett, the Union soldier who shot Booth in a Virginia tobacco barn, comes to him claiming to know the true story behind the conspiracy, Webb realizes he may have stumbled onto the biggest story of his career, and the most dangerous. The novel mixes historical fact with supernatural suggestion, which critics described as giving it the feel of a “weird western.”
This collected edition is the easiest way to read the full story without tracking down the three separate serialized parts published in 2014 and 2015.