The Fire Watch

Praise for the novels of Alan Dennis Burke…

• Fire Watch, Atlantic-Little Brown
"Riveting…." Publishers Weekly.

• Getting Away With Murder, Atlantic-Little Brown.
"On a virtuoso level." New York Times Book Review.
"Intelligent goggle-eyed excitement…" Newsweek.

• Dead Wrong, St. Martin's Press
"Marks Burke as a suspense star…." Booklist.

Merrigan at the Mine introduces earnest, youthful Irish immigrant Myles Merrigan, a clerk at a Boston firm bringing cotton to the mills of New England. When he falls in love with wealthy, beautiful but troubled abolitionist Elizabeth James his career runs afoul of his heart. It won't be the last time as his pursuit takes him throughout the entirety of the Civil War, from Wall Street's war profiteers, to the New York draft riots to the Union Army and a scheme to end the war with one audacious blow.