Title: The eagle turns
Description: 1850 and America is violently divided on the issue of slavery. When President Zachary Taylor dies, suddenly and under questionable circumstances, it is left to his Vice President, Millard Fillmore, a weaker man, to find ways to keep the North and the South apart. In New York, child of Irish immigrants, Matthew O'Hanlon is fired from his job as a newsman on the Herald but, surprisingly, finds work as Foreign Correspondent for the Associated Press in Panama City.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, Fiction, historical, United states, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, historical, general
Places: United States, Panama City (Fla.), Panama City, Florida