O'Reilly warned that this story will read like a thriller. Partly because he reads it, it sounded more like a boring history lecture. Even so, I was very much engaged. Bits and pieces of the assassination plot were never taught. I appreciated the summary of the last days of the war. The possibility that Secretary Stanton was involved in the conspiracy was intriguing. The flamboyant exploits of the detective Lafayette Baker sounded like fiction. I even appreciated the long-winded afterward. It was nice to have a few of the loose ends tied up.