THE DEAD SURVIVORS

By KJ Erickson

COMING IN MARCH 2002

0-312-26699-5

Hardcover/ $24.95/$34.95 Canada

Copyright KJ Erickson. All rights reserved

A man with terminal cancer and a stack of debts hangs himself.  It’s an open-and-shut suicide—except for a string of numbers on the man’s arm.  Minneapolis Homicide Detective Marshall Bahr is baffled until he uncovers an obscure fact in the dead man’s ancestry that explains the numbers—the vic is descended from the legendary First Minnesota Volunteers, the regiment that turned the tide during Pickett’s Charge on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Mars and his partner amass a broad circumstantial case based on the Civil War connection.  Then another body turns up, and Mars, the FBI, and jurisdictions across the country are tracking a killer whose motive is revenge—against the descendents of the First Minnesota.  It will take every tool in Mars’s arsenal to catch the vengeful killer before he achieves his goal.