The Fifth Assassin

Brad Meltzer · first published 2013 · ISBN 9781444764543

A serial killer is staging recreations of actual presidential assassinations, from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald. The Culper Ring must stop him before he completes his grim collection. The novel deepens the series' historical research and raises the emotional and moral stakes for Meltzer's characters. History stops being backdrop and becomes the killer's weapon.