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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 fiancée, 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 causes intertwine, 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. PRAISE FOR DAVID LISS: A Conspiracy of Paper “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 “Tremendously smart, assured, and entertaining . . . an intricate mystery, a colorful rogues’ gallery and, improbably, a history lesson on the birth of the stock market.” –Newsweek A Spectacle of Corruption “[A] wonderful book . . . every bit as good as [Liss’s] remarkable debut . . . easily one of the year’s best.” –The Boston Globe “[A] rousing sequel of historical intellectual suspense.” –San Antonio Express-News The Coffee Trader “Percolates with seventeenth-century intrigue . . . A story of cutthroat financial schemes, merciless creditors, collapsing markets, and deceitful men . . . In this book, even the hero is no saint.” –USA Today “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

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I’ll tell you right off, I hate novels that are written in alternating chapters. My complaint is that one story is never allowed to develop without the interruption of another story, and though David Liss is a skillful writer, and the stories eventually intersect qui...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 07:09:12 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 05:41:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 21:01:06 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 14:28:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jun 10 19:49:33 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 22:35:02 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 19:49:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Sep 30 09:47:08 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 23 11:08:54 -0800 2008 Part potboiler, part history lesson, part financial treatise, part love story, part adventure tale, this highly entertaining novel by Goodreads author David Liss takes us back to the early days of America in the 1790s, when Alexander Hamilton was setting up the Bank of the United States, Ameri...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 15:58:23 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 15:07:34 -0700 2008
Looking forward to reading what I'm guessing is going to be another great historical fiction - this time set in the early founding days of the Good ol' USA.

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Liss is deeply steeped in the historical details of the post-revolutionary government, but you never f...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 07:20:30 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 07:20:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 19:04:23 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 19:04:23 -0800 2009
This novel is not about the Whiskey Rebels that you've heard of, but rather about a group of "Westerners" (re...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 11:49:14 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 12:00:30 -0700 2009
Oh, but it does. David Liss gives us a sharply written narrative with as much literary merit as action, and a complex plot teeming with interesting characters, from historical figures to likable scoundrels. It works even if you...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 14:37:57 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 14:55:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 24 07:43:49 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 07:46:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 17 07:41:18 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 07:41:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 25 16:11:28 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 09:35:42 -0700 2009
Set in America's infancy--a 1792 tha...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 19:34:07 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 19:34:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 14 14:19:11 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 14:27:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 22 09:03:20 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 09:37:07 -0800 2008 Saunders has become a throughly self-pitying, self-loathing drunk due to events during the Revolutiona...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 16:49:52 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 00:26:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2182488