{"product_id":"9780358394990_the-lion-and-the-fox","title":"The Lion and the Fox","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Washington’s Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War—and the Union agent resolved to stop him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1861, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, two secret agents—one a Confederate, the other his Union rival—were dispatched to neutral Britain, each entrusted with a vital mission.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe South’s James Bulloch, charming and devious, was to acquire a cutting-edge clandestine fleet intended to break President Lincoln’s blockade of Confederate ports, sink Northern merchant vessels, and drown the U.S. Navy’s mightiest ships at sea. The profits from gunrunning and smuggling cotton—Dixie’s notorious “white gold”—would 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 “addicted to Southern proclivities, foreign slave trade, and domestic bribery.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne spy must build a navy from scratch. The other must stop him at all costs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eInternational Espionage:\u003c\/b\u003e The battleground isn’t Gettysburg, but the smoky shipyards and back rooms of Liverpool, where British loyalties and fortunes are up for grabs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSpy vs. Spy:\u003c\/b\u003e Meet Confederate mastermind James Bulloch and his Union counterpart Thomas Dudley, a Quaker abolitionist, locked in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse that will determine the war’s fate at sea.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Birth of the Confederate Navy:\u003c\/b\u003e Follow the clandestine mission to build a fleet of deadly commerce raiders and blockade runners, financed by the South’s cotton wealth and designed to cripple the Union.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eUntold Civil War History:\u003c\/b\u003e Based on meticulous research, this is the astonishing, little-known story of the naval and intelligence war fought across the Atlantic, a struggle that nearly brought Great Britain in on the side of the Confederacy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Alexander Rose","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46925408829589,"sku":"9780358394990","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780358394990.jpg?v=1776889790","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780358394990_the-lion-and-the-fox","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}