The Whiskey Rebels

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Edgar Award winner David Liss delivers his most ambitious work to date—a gripping novel set in post-Revolutionary War America, where Founding Fathers and desperate schemers vie for wealth, power, and a chance to mold a country's destiny.
Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington's most valued spies, now lives in disgrace, haunting the taverns of Philadelphia. Asked by Alexander. Hamilton to investigate a scheme against the U.S. Treasury, Saunders is reluctant to help. But when Hamilton's rival Thomas Jefferson also tries to recruit the fallen hero, Saunders becomes embroiled in a seditious plot.
Meanwhile, Joan Maycott has set out with her husband on a trek in hope of a better life on the western Pennsylvania frontier. There, amid the hardship and deprivation, the Maycotts find unlikely friendship and a chance for prosperity with a new method of distilling whiskey. But their growing success soon attracts the attention of both rival whiskey makers and forces within the U.S.... Tovább

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Edgar Award winner David Liss delivers his most ambitious work to date—a gripping novel set in post-Revolutionary War America, where Founding Fathers and desperate schemers vie for wealth, power, and a chance to mold a country's destiny.
Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington's most valued spies, now lives in disgrace, haunting the taverns of Philadelphia. Asked by Alexander. Hamilton to investigate a scheme against the U.S. Treasury, Saunders is reluctant to help. But when Hamilton's rival Thomas Jefferson also tries to recruit the fallen hero, Saunders becomes embroiled in a seditious plot.
Meanwhile, Joan Maycott has set out with her husband on a trek in hope of a better life on the western Pennsylvania frontier. There, amid the hardship and deprivation, the Maycotts find unlikely friendship and a chance for prosperity with a new method of distilling whiskey. But their growing success soon attracts the attention of both rival whiskey makers and forces within the U.S. government.
As their causes intertwine, Joan Maycott and Ethan Saunders will find themselves on opposing sides of a daring scheme that will change their lives and their country forever. The Whiskey Rebels is a superb rendering of a perilous age and a new nation nearly torn apart—and David Liss's most powerful novel yet.
PRAISE FOR DAVID LISS
"[A] wonderful book every bit as good as [Liss's] remarkable debut easily one of the year's best." —The Boston Globe, on A Spectacle of Corruption
"An entertaining tale [a] learned page-turner . . . Despite the many characters and plot twists, Mr. Liss keeps his story in graceful motion." —The Wall Street Journal, on The Coffee Trader
"The plot draws you in from page to page
An evocation of English history that you can happily get lost in for days." —The New York Times, on A Conspiracy of Paper
DAVID LISS is the author of A Spectacle of Corruption, The Coffee Trader, and A Conspiracy of Paper, winner of the 2000 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, as well as The Ethical Assassin. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and children.
www.davidliss.com
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October 2008 publication * U.S.A. $26.00 (Canada $30.00) * ISBN 978-1-4000-6420-5
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