Lightning Time Author:Douglas Rees "We are likely all," John Brown says evenly to the handful of men armed and waiting at the Maryland farmhouse in October 1859. They are astonished to hear him, especially young Theodore Worth, who has believed for months that there must be thousands of raiders about to assemble. As much as anyone there, Theodore believes in the cause of freeing ... more »the slaves that motivates Brown, but suddenly the planned attack on the Harper's Ferry arsenal seems foolhardy, suicidal. Does Brown, after all, know what he's doing? Theodore's two-year journey from Quaker son and dutiful Boston schoolboy to his role as one of Brown's Invisibles is narrated tautly in the boy's own voice. His relationships with family, with the compelling but quixotic Brown, with pre-Civil War history all have the dimensionality of life.« less