American Falls

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In AMERICAN FALLS, the author has combined two popular genres, the historical novel and the spy story, with generally satisfactory results. The plot turns on the efforts of Captain Amaziah Butter of the United States Secret Service to thwart a plan concocted by Rebel guerrillas in the last months of 1864 to disrupt urban areas around the country and force an end to the war on terms favorable to the Confederacy. The focus of Butter’s attention is John Oliphant, a Confederate agent who has returned from Europe to coordinate the activities of a group of hotheaded raiders. For reasons of his own, Oliphant is unenthusiastic about the guerrilla actions, but both he and Butter are trapped by forces beyond their control, as they move toward a dramatic confrontation in the cave beneath the falls at Niagara.