Lafayette C. Baker

Lafayette C. Baker is represented in the linked historical fiction through crime, espionage and covert power, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and political ambition and government. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In John Jakes’s On Secret Service, Allan Pinkerton, Lafayette C. Baker and other historical figures appear as the story moves towards John Wilkes Booth’s conspiracy and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.