Book description
America, 1787. Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington’s most valued spies, is living in disgrace after an accusation of treason cost him his reputation. But an opportunity for redemption comes calling when Saunders’s old enemy, Alexander Hamilton, draws him into a struggle with bitter rival Thomas Jefferson over the creation…
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2 authors picked The Whiskey Rebels as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The Whisky Rebels is set in the years just before the Whisky Rebellion of 1794.
Farmers in the frontier of western Pennsylvania find turning wheat into whisky gives them a form of currency. Ethan Saunders, a bold scoundrel, has served as a spy for General Washington. Alexander Hamilton, former enemy of Saunders, engages his services to help establish the Bank of the United States, to which Thomas Jefferson is opposed.
But Joan Maycomb, a resourceful frontier woman, realizes that the Bank of the United States may be an enemy to whisky’s power. She finds herself pitted against Ethan Saunders. The…
A direct inspiration on my book, this is a great espionage thriller set in Philadelphia about a disgraced Revolution-era spy who gets hired by Alexander Hamilton to help against his arch-enemy, Thomas Jefferson, and finds his path intersecting with a farmwife standing up against a frontier uprising.
Liss is a master of the historical form (and a friend, full disclosure!)
From Fred's list on historical mysteries/thrillers set before World War II.
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