{"product_id":"faded-coat-of-blue-abel-jones-mysteries","title":"Faded Coat Of Blue (Abel Jones Mysteries)","description":"November 1861. Gloom hangs over Washington, D.C., thick as autumn fog and chimney smoke. One lost battle has followed another. Across the Potomac River, the body of a young volunteer captain is found outside an encampment of raw recruits. Shot through the heart, the victim was one of the North's 'golden youth', sole son of a merchant dynasty and a fervent abolitionist, idolized by women and regarded as a man with the greatest of futures. Dead in the Virginia mud, Anthony Fowler is lauded as a fallen hero murdered by agents of the Confederacy. But whispers haunt the death of the young martyr fallen in his FADED COAT OF BLUEVeteran of Queen Victoria's wars and recent immigrant to America, Abel Jones believed he had left his days in uniform behind. Now, firmly rooted on the shores of his adopted land -- where American has taken up arms against American in this most terrible of conflicts -- he has signed on as a confidential agent to General George McClellan, the man touted as the savior of the Union. Within hours Jones finds himself in a dark and unexpected world, where questions lead not to answers, but to other deaths...Set against the backdrop of battles and bordellos, of the intrigues of war-time Washington and the elegant mansions of old Philadelphia, FADED COAT OF BLUE reaches behind the myths and heroics to paint a ravishing, disturbing and deeply moving portrait of the United States in the midst of our harshest trial. A determinedly moral man in a troubled age, Abel Jones triggers a drama involving greedy industrialists and corrupt generals, rag-clad immigrants and impassioned patriots, vicious politicians and the greatest president the country has ever known. Hisinvestigation draws him into a web of sinister relationships that reveals a hidden side to Fowler's life...and a shocking secret the youth may have died for. As a nation begins its long march into war -- and as President Lincoln agonizes over the coming carnage -- Abel Jones discovers that good and evil are easily intertwined, while heroes may be betrayed by those who cherished them the most.Vividly told, rich in history and compelling authentic detail, FADED COAT OF BLUE is a riveting tale of crime and punishment set amid the blood and tumult of the American Civil War; a startlingly original work of fiction that introduces Abel Jones, a most unusual crime-solver, a true American hero, and a keen observer of a world on fire.","brand":"Owen Parry","offers":[{"title":"Very good","offer_id":44274701402211,"sku":"928125-very-good","price":6.25,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0676\/0320\/2147\/files\/view_archive_db234c6b-b82d-4c57-858b-2606574bceb7.jpg?v=1782096654","url":"https:\/\/qasralthaqafa.com\/products\/faded-coat-of-blue-abel-jones-mysteries","provider":"Qasr Al-Thaqafa","version":"1.0","type":"link"}