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The Jeremiah Thorne Novels: BOOK 1: The Cypress Cage

The Jeremiah Thorne Novels: BOOK 1: The Cypress Cage

Vogeler, Brett

Paperback

Series: The Jeremiah Thorne Novels, Book 1

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798269307008
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 10 2025
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Jeremiah Thorne Novels: BOOK 1: The Cypress Cage

In the sweltering, occupied city of New Orleans-a powder keg of Creole resentment and military rule-Allan Pinkerton's best detective, Jeremiah Thorne, arrives with a clandestine mission. He has been summoned by the city's reviled military governor, Major General Benjamin Butler, a man known as The Beast, to uncover the source of the conspiracies that threaten to boil over into open rebellion. Butler's army is an axe, meant for felling trees, but the city's sickness requires the delicate touch of a surgeon. Thorne, a quiet observer of details who sees the world as a series of locks waiting for the right key, is that surgeon.

His investigation begins before he even has time to acclimate to the oppressive Louisiana heat. A Union quartermaster, Captain Robert Ames, is found brutally murdered in a dark alley, strangled with a garrote and pinned with the palmetto rosette of the secessionists . While Butler's brutish provost marshal prepares to hang dozens of innocent citizens to make an example, Thorne's keen eye sees what others miss: this is not a simple political assassination. Teaming up with a weary but brilliant local physician, Dr. Etienne Dubois, Thorne discovers that the murder was a cold, professional execution, designed to cover a far more dangerous secret. The captain was not killed for his uniform, but for what he had discovered: a sophisticated conspiracy of treason and profit, siphoning massive quantities of gunpowder from Union army stores.

Thorne's hunt for the truth leads him from the city's squalid back alleys to its most elegant parlors, and directly into the orbit of the conspiracy's untouchable queen: the magnificent and formidable Creole widow, Isabelle de Valcour. A living symbol of the city's unconquered spirit, she presides over a shadowy network of smugglers and disaffected merchants from her Royal Street mansion. Aided by the legendary and ruthless riverboat captain Luke Devereaux, she has turned her patriotic fervor into a lethal enterprise. As another Union officer is murdered to protect the operation, an enraged General Butler gives Thorne an impossible ultimatum: bring him proof of the conspiracy in forty-eight hours, or he will unleash his axe on the city and begin the mass hangings.

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