Rare-book expert Peter Fallon and his girlfriend, Evangeline, the main
characters from Back Bay and Harvard Yard, are back for another
treasure hunt through time. They have learned of an early, annotated
draft of the Constitution, stolen and smuggled out of Philadelphia. The
draft's marginal notes spell out, in shocking detail, the Founders'
unequivocal intentions--the unmistakable meaning of the Bill of Rights.
Peddled and purloined, trafficked and concealed for over two centuries,
the lost Constitution could forever change America's history--and its
future.
Moreover, Congress is already at war, fighting tooth and claw over the
eternally contentious Bill of Rights. When word gets out of the lost
draft's existence, it launches a frenzied search, as both sides of the
partisan machine believe it will reinforce their arguments. While
battling politicians from both sides of the debate, Peter and Evangeline
must get to the document first, because they know that if the wrong
people find it, they will burn it, stripping the nation of its
constitutional moorings.
The search takes Peter and Evangeline into the rich history of America
and New England, from Shays's Rebellion to the birth of the American
industrial revolution to the march of the legendary 20th Maine in the
Civil War.
Past and present play off one another as the search for the draft heats
up. It finally boils over on the first night of the World Series, at
that Mecca of New England, Boston's fabled Fenway Park, and the truth is
finally revealed....
