William Donovan's final battlefield action of World War I is to countermand an order he received to attack - an order the would needlessly cost more lives than the Irish Regiment had already lost during an ineffective battle plan draw up by their division commander. Not only does he live to defend his actions, but he is eventually awarded the Medal of Honor and the commander who issued to attack orders is relieved. After the war, he returns to Buffalo and his law practice but when he becomes US Attorney General in Western New York, he makes many enemies enforcing prohibition laws. He is all but run out of town, but lands on his feet when his legal mentor from Columbia Law School is appointed Attorney General in President Calvin Coolidge's cabinet and Donovan is asked to come to Washington to join the Justice Department... which is where he runs afoul of a young lawyer named J. Edgar Hoover.
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