In the Milne books, Pooh is naive and slow-witted, but he is also friendly, thoughtful and steadfast. Although he and his friends agree that he is "a bear of very little brain," Pooh is occasionally acknowledged to have a clever idea, usually driven by common sense.
After a staged attack that killed the President of the United States and most of Congress, a radical political group called the "Sons of Jacob" used quasi-Christian ideology to launch a revolution. The United States Constitution was suspended, newspapers were censored, and what was formerly the United States of America was changed into a military dictatorship known as the Republic of Gilead.
Jon's desperate quest to find out why the ghosts are after him leads him to the mystery of a centuries-old murder. Meanwhile, he is still pursued by the vengeful ghosts, so with the help of a new friend, Ella, he summons a noble ghost – Sir William Longspee, the Ghost Knight of the title – to protect him. They finally uncover a complicated truth and right a grievous wrong.