false 34200799 216284 2182488 1400064201 9781400064205 251 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/21/488/2182488-m-1255920354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/21/488/2182488-s-1255920354.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2182488.The_Whiskey_Rebels_A_Novel 3.84 619 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]]> 27874 3.72 3683 821 2008 Ah -- now the two subplots are finally coming together, and Alexander Hamilton is a character 0 2008-12-14T10:32:56-08:00 174671 126 2008-12-14T10:32:56-08:00 The story is taking hold. One subplot heads west to frontier Pittsburgh; the other becomes a missing persons case in Philadelphia 0 2008-12-09T19:55:42-08:00 163563 85 2008-12-09T19:55:42-08:00 Two chapters in, we've met a dissolute Revolutionary War veteran and an ambitious young would be novelist ... 2 2008-11-28T20:46:14-08:00 134078 2008-11-30T13:24:57-08:00 31 2008-11-28T20:46:14-08:00 5 1 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...]]>