The Crow Creek Expedition

The Crow Creek Expedition is the third book in the duelist series. In The Confederate Cipher, young Henry Hudson begins his journey down the rabbit hole of espionage as an initiate, guided by the fledgling British Secret Service. In Hudson’s Scouts, he expands his tradecraft and gains experience during the War of Southern Independence.

The Crow Creek Expedition begins with a massacre and ends with a prophecy.

There is something intoxicating about a secret. Fraternal societies base their rites on symbolic rituals that take the initiate on a journey from darkness into light. Secret societies tend to do the opposite, accentuating the darkness of combinations and conspiracies designed to do harm. Specific handshakes (grips), words, and signs are used to identify members whose oaths are backed by the promise of retributive bloodshed if they are revealed.

When the book ends, President Abraham Lincoln has 118 days left to live.