John Wilks Booth was a popular American actor, a man who had professional performance skills and politely demeanours. He was a creature of the city and well known for his fancy style of living. He was more famous as the assassinator of president Lincoln, the sixteenth president who had set the black people free and remembered by people as the greatest man throughout the history. Compare to the glory triumphs of President Lincoln, Booth's achievements as an actor seem insignificant, but what he did during the last thirteen-days of his life had made him become the centre of attentions. He was not an actor anymore but the man who had blown up the president's head and had to run for his life. The book <Chasing Lincoln's killer> gives a full track to the flee of Booth and also the reenactment of several horrible murders, including the President of United States Lincoln, the Vice president Hannibal Hamlin,and the Secretary of State William H.Seward. It talks about the failure of the Confederate States of America, the reaction of Booth and his accomplices after they had heard the news, the preparation and execution of the murder, the intriguing facts of how he managed to flee away and the people who had supported him, which made the investigation of Lincoln's killer more difficult than people had anticipated.
<Chasing Lincoln's Killer> is not a novel. It is a historical document and all the words are authentic. Every plots it has had happened in history. Every character it has is real and was alive during the manhunt. The most thrilling story is the story of the history. Every man in the book had his own trace. Everyone of them has his own story and all the stories came up together shaped the world today. It is like a ripple effect that one person affects the others and he himself is affected. If we see the time line, every person had his own role in history and if a single person is missing, the future will be changed. It is surprisingly to see that the author had successfully use the technic of novel writing to describe the close relationships between the murders and their victims.
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