No Certain Rest: A Novel

New York: Random House, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. very good/very good. 222 pages. Map. Signed by the author James Charles "Jim" Lehrer (born May 19, 1934) is an American journalist and a novelist.Lehrer is the former Executive Editor and a former News Anchor for the PBS NewsHour on PBS, and is known for his role as a Debate Moderator in U.S. Presidential Election campaigns. He is an author of numerous fiction and non-fiction books that draw upon his experience as a newsman, along with his interests in history and politics In this intensely intriguing story of murder on the Civil War battlefield at Antietam, a Parks Department archaeologist finds out the truth about what happened and why the wrong man is buried in a small New England town. On a ridge overlooking Burnside Bridge, the focus of the Battle of Antietam, souvenir hunters find the unmarked grave of an unknown Union officer. Don Spaniel, an archaeologist in the National Park Service, is called in to examine the remains. He soon discovers that the officer was murdered and that his identification disk could not possibly belong to him, since its rightful owner is buried elsewhere. So who was this officer? Where did he come from? And why?