The Freedman Legacy

Washington, D.C., 1885. On the night of President Cleveland's inauguration, four of the city's most respected Black businessmen are attacked simultaneously. Two die. Two survive - including Professor Sylvester Watkins, who knows the moment it happens that this was no robbery. They knew his name. They were sent for him.

Working alongside Commander Nathan Tower and a network of quietly brilliant operatives, Watkins begins to pull apart a conspiracy built on one of the most painful chapters in ...