In Drew Nelson's debut novel, "Original Intent," North Carolina history meets a page-turning thriller. The novel reimagines the Revolutionary-era death of James Wilson, one of the principal authors of the Constitution, and weaves the fictional account of his death into a political plot based in present-day Washington, DC.

Description of the Novel

Judge William Iredell had political enemies. But it was an ally that poisoned him - on the same evening Iredell secured a seat on the United States Supreme Court.

Reluctantly pulled to DC to represent an old friend accused of the...