The Blue Riders

The book is set in the 1890s and involves the newspaper war between William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. After a plucky female reporter learns about a plot to murder President William McKinley, she is kidnapped by agents of the Spanish government and taken to Cuba. Two other reporters travel to Cuba and rescue her and then return to Washington, D.C. to stop the assassination of the president.

The book is set in the 1890s and involves the newspaper war between William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. After a plucky female reporter learns about a plot to murder President William McKinley, she is kidnapped by agents of the Spanish government and taken to Cuba. Two other reporters travel to Cuba and rescue her and then return to Washington, D.C. to stop the assassination of the president.