Witness fearless and deadly young Union spy, Maddie Bradford, aka “Falcon”, a creation of author Jane Singer, an authority on Civil War espionage, as Falcon wages a secret war deep in Confederate Richmond. Recruited by Alan Pinkerton, Maddie becomes a trained fighter, crack shot, and master of disguise, who is pursued by her look-alike, a female Confederate assassin, in a thrilling story that could have been true. Jane’s extensive research in Civil War spy-craft, help her use historical and fictional figures to lend authenticity and texture to a time of terror.

Jane Singer
Jane Singer is a tale spinner, a Civil War scholar and author of fiction and nonfiction. Her fixed and firm mission is bringing to life heroes and heroines, assassins, and conmen, both real and imagined, in a long-ago war that has an eerie resonance in our own troubled time.

Her nonfiction works include:
1. The War Criminal’s Son: The Civil War Saga of William A. Winder, (Potomac Books, 2019)
2. Lincoln’s Secret Spy: The Civil War Case That Changed The Future of Espionage (Lyons Press, April 2015)
3. The Confederate Dirty War: Arson, Bombings, Assassination and Plots for Chemical and Germ Attacks Against the Union (McFarland & Company, August, 2005)

Singer’s fiction works include:
1. Falcon: A Civil War Spy Fiction, (KDP, 2024)
2. Alias Dragonfly, (Bell Bridge Books, 2011)
3. Booth’s Sister (Bell Bridge Books, 2008.)

In November of 2006, the History Channel based a two-hour special called Civil War Terror on her book. Singer was both the historical consultant for the project, as well as the primary on screen narrator. Her writing has been featured in the Washington Post Magazine (“The Fiend in Gray”), The Washington Times (“Felix Stidger and the Sons of Liberty”). Her research and discovery of Stidger; a little-known American hero, was illuminated in a Chicago Sun-Times article. Singer is also a professional actor, voice-over artist, narrator and self-defense instructor to challenged teens and adults. Raised in Arlington, Virginia, she now lives in Los Angeles, California.