Quantrell's Raiders

The Civil War is the background for this book, particularly the blood massacre of men, women, and children by William Clark Quantrell in Lawrence, Kansas in 1863. Frank Gruber even writes a preface in the book detailing the source for the material for this book. The story of Donny Fletcher is fiction, however history--depending on your bias--perhaps does contain such an incident--that of Fletcher facing execution by the Army for killing a man--flees home to Missouri. There he joins Quantrell in his campaigns of the war, until Lawrence, Kansas turned into a massacre. It was then Flether had to make the toughest decision of his life....This is an extraordinary book with plenty of action, plenty of history, and plenty of entertainment value. Frank Gruber knew how to tell a story with scenes shifting from place to place and people to people with rapid fire percision to get his story told. He is a one of a kind of author.