The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War"It's history that reads like a race against the clock thriller." ? Harlan CobenDaniel Stashower, the two time Edgar award winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War in THE HOUR OF PERIL. In February of 1861, just days before he assumed the presidency, Abraham Lincoln faced a "clear and fully matured" threat of