A powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled,
celebrated, and legendary of Civil War generals. With the same
eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his
award-winning fictional trilogy of the Haitian Revolution, Madison
Smartt Bell now turns his gaze to America's Civil War. We see Forrest on
and off the battlefield, in less familiar but no less revealing moments
of his life; we see him treating his slaves humanely even as he fights
to ensure their continued enslavement; we see his knack for keeping his
enemy unsettled, his instinct for the unexpected, and his relentless
stamina. As Devil's Dream moves back and forth in time, a vivid
portrait comes into focus: a rough, fierce man with a life full of
contradictions.