It is an engrossing tale of a public servant's descent and one well told with sympathy and accuracy by Thomas and Tracy...With few studies on servants of the crown and indeed specifically on Lockwood, it fills a gap in the literature.

Mariner's Mirror

What we have here is a detailed and interestingly written account of a Georgian life made all the more so by the nature of the rise and eventual fall into obscurity of the Right Honourable Anthony Lockwood RN.

The Cape Horner

This is a book that is difficult to put down until the final page. If is difficult at times to remember that this is a true story and not the imagination of an accomplished writer of fiction.

Firetrench Reviews

Canadians prefer to maintain a prosaic view of their politics. We tend to ignore the fact our longest-serving prime minister communed with his dead mother, or that there was once a premier of British Columbia named Amor De Cosmos. But we simply don’t know about Anthony Lockwood. On June 1, 1823, Lockwood, a member of New Brunswick’s ruling Executive Council, dictated a proclamation in Fredericton’s public square declaring he was overthrowing the government. He then galloped through the village of 1,700, waving his pistols and threatening to kill his enemies. His one-man coup d’état failed when the high sheriff arrested him. Lockwood was declared mad, and later left for England to spend the rest of his life in and out of asylums.

Macleans