Overview
James Garfield has only been the United States president for a few days when a stranger begins stalking him. Who is this man? And what does he want from the president? For weeks, the threat to Garfield grows, undetected, until a sudden violent encounter catches Washington by surprise.
In this gripping thriller, Sibert Honor-winner Gail Jarrow continues her Medical Fiascoes series by exploring events from the summer of 1881. Anxious Americans intently follow news reports in the aftermath of the stranger’s shocking attack on Garfield. Can the president’s doctors save him? Have their mistakes put him in new danger? Jarrow uncovers these answers and more in the haunting true story about a fiasco that changed the course of political and medical history.