Overview
From theĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ Washingtonās Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy whoĀ came to Britain to turnĀ the tide of the Civil Warāand the Union agent resolved to stop him.
In 1861, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, two secret agentsāone a Confederate, the other his Union rivalāwere dispatched to neutral Britain, each entrusted with a vital mission.
The Southās James Bulloch, charming and devious, was to acquire a cutting-edge clandestine fleet intended to break President Lincolnās blockade of Confederate ports, sink Northern merchant vessels, and drown the U.S. Navyās mightiest ships at sea. The profits from gunrunning and smuggling cottonāDixieās notorious āwhite goldāāwould finance the scheme. Opposing him was Thomas Dudley, a resolute Quaker lawyer and abolitionist. He was determined to stop Bulloch by any means necessary in a spy-versus-spy game of move and countermove, gambit and sacrifice, intrigue and betrayal. If Dudley failed, Britain would ally with the South and imperil a Northern victory. The battleground was the Dickensian port of Liverpool, whose dockyards built more ships each year than the rest of the world combined, whose warehouses stored more cotton than anywhere else on earth, and whose merchant princes, said one observer, were āaddicted to Southern proclivities, foreign slave trade, and domestic bribery.ā
From master of historical espionage Alexander Rose, The Lion and the Fox is the astonishing, untold tale of two implacable foes and their twilight struggle for the highest stakes.Ā
This book title, The Lion And The Fox (Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy), ISBN: 9780358393252, by Alexander Rose, published by HarperCollins (December 1, 2022) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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