Ethan Saunders, once among General Washingtona (TM)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 fiancA(c)e, Cynthia Pearson, but at his most desperate moment he is recruited for an unlikely task a " finding Cynthiaa (TM)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 creation of the fragile young nationa (TM)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 Maycottsa (TM) success attracts the brutal attention of men in Hamiltona (TM)s orbit, men who threaten to destroy all Joan holds dear. As their causes intertwine, Joan and Saunders a " both patriots in their own way a " 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 a " and David Lissa (TM)s most powerful novel yet.
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