Title: Not well written, and limited in research
Product review: This book contains what seems like an accurate, detailed fictional portrayal of escape attempts from Libby Prison in Richmond during the Civil War. But the book isn't well written and the main culprit is the dialogue. Every character speaks in ridiculously thick, phonetically spelled dialect. All the Southerners talk in the most stereotypical way imaginable. The author's presentation of the horrors of Libby Prison, while eschewing any discussion of the equally awful conditions faced by Southerners in the North, gives a feeling of unreliability to the novel's status as well-researched historical fiction. Overall, I wouldn't recommend this.
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