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The Whiskey Rebels (Paperback)

By: David Liss (Author)

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David Liss's bestselling historical thrillers, including "A Conspiracy of Paper "and "The Coffee Trader," have been called remarkable and rousing: the perfect combination of scrupulous research and breathless excitement. Now Liss delivers his best novel yet in an entirely new setting-America in the years after the Revolution, an unstable nation where desperate schemers vie for wealth, power, and a chance to shape a country's destiny.
Ethan Saunders, once among General Washington's most valued spies, now lives in disgrace, haunting the taverns of Philadelphia. An accusation of treason has long since cost him his reputation and his beloved fiancee, Cynthia Pearson, but at his most desperate moment he is recruited for an unlikely task-finding Cynthia's missing husband. To help her, Saunders must serve his old enemy, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who is engaged in a bitter power struggle with political rival Thomas Jefferson over the fragile young nation's first real financial institution: the Bank of the United States.
Meanwhile, Joan Maycott is a young woman married to another Revolutionary War veteran. With the new states unable to support their ex-soldiers, the Maycotts make a desperate gamble: trade the chance of future payment for the hope of a better life on the western Pennsylvania frontier. There, amid hardship and deprivation, they find unlikely friendship and a chance for prosperity with a new method of distilling whiskey. But on an isolated frontier, whiskey is more than a drink; it is currency and power, and the Maycotts' success attracts the brutal attention of men in Hamilton's orbit, men who threaten to destroy all Joan holds dear.
As their causesintertwine, Joan and Saunders-both patriots in their own way-find themselves on opposing sides of a daring scheme that will forever change their lives and their new country. "The Whiskey Rebels" is a superb rendering of a perilous age and a nation nearly torn apart-and David Liss's most powerful novel yet.

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David Liss provides a riveting fictionalized account of the events surrounding the Pennsylvania Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, which led President George Washington to declare martial law. Alternating chapters tell the tale of Ethan Saunders, a disgraced former spy called on the investigate the disappearance of a corrupt financier, and Joan Maycott, a budding novelist who is forced into the tumult of the whiskey uprisings after her husband's sudden death leaves her in charge of their distillery. Ethan eventually finds himself tangled in the economic strings which were being tugged by Alexander Hamilton, who, as part of his desperate attempt to create a national bank, initiated a state tax on alcohol, which was disproportionately assessed against smaller distilleries. Combining exhilarating action with intriguing historical insight, Liss's version of this thrilling and significant episode of early America is guaranteed to increase both your adrenaline and your I.Q.

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