{"product_id":"the-whiskey-rebels-a-novel-9781400064205","title":"The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Lisss 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 settingAmerica in the years after the Revolution  an unstable nation where desperate schemers vie for wealth  power  and a chance to shape a countrys destiny.  Ethan Saunders  once among General Washingtons 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 fiance  Cynthia Pearson  but at his most desperate moment he is recruited for an unlikely taskfinding Cynthias 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 nations 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 Hamiltons orbit  men who threaten to destroy all Joan holds dear.  As their causes intertwine  Joan and Saundersboth patriots in their own wayfind 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 apartand David Lisss most powerful novel yet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648179036213,"sku":"ByrdShop_1400064201","price":24.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781400064205.jpg?v=1781711894","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-whiskey-rebels-a-novel-9781400064205","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}