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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Whiskey Rebels: A Novelby: David Liss  List Price: $26.00 Amazon.com's Price: $17.16 You Save: $8.84 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781400064205 Edition: 1st ISBN: 1400064201 Label: Random House Manufacturer: Random House Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 544 Publication Date: September 30, 2008 Publisher: Random House Release Date: September 30, 2008 Studio: Random House Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 fiancĂ©e, 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great read!Any one who enjoys "fictitious history" is in for a treat. "The Whiskey Rebels" is written in the the style of the era. David Liss takes the reader on a journey with the new patriots who are bent on shaping and saving America just after our freedom was won from the British. Travel from the "Empire State" to the new settlement of Pittsburg. Visit Philadelphia, get your feet muddied, live the life of a new American. America is on the brink of becoming a great nation. Or will greed and revenge derail ... Read More Rating: - Great Historical Thriller.I don't know why I cringe at the idea of reading a historical novel, because usually I end up loving them. Case in point, with 'The Whiskey Rebels'. The spilt narrative follows Ethan Saunders, a disgraced spy in George Washington's army, and Joan Maycott, a young idealistic woman who moves to the outskirts of Pennsylvania to start a new life with her husband, unaware of the hardships they're about to face. Their individuals paths eventually merge, but it's the journey there that's the fun part. In light ... Read More Rating: - Interesting readingI was excited to start this book because it sounded interesting. As I started the book I found I was losing interest and I wasn't sure I'd be able to finish it. However, all of a sudden it came to life and things started to make a lot of sense. You could see how everything twisted together. It ended up I could hardly put the book down and was sorry when it ended. Anyone who like a lot of twists and turns, you'll enjoy it. Rating: - Superbly interesting novelI was interested in the Whiskey Rebellion period of history, so I thought I'd read a novel rather than a history book. I learned more than I bargained for! The beginnings of the American banking system, free trade in the 18th century, way more than I ever knew about Alexander Hamilton and a little I hadn't known about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Here's a novel that grabs you with the first chapter. You're not sure you like the first protagonist, but the second one is adorable. ... Read More Rating:  - Just an average novelWith over 70 reviews already available, I will make mine short. I found Saunders to be just a bit too "cute" to suit my tastes. He reminded me of a TV series hero who, in the 5th year of the series, has mutated from a serious character into one who cracks jokes during life-or-death situations that would have most mortals in a state of terror. In short, he seemed written for the movie role to follow, not as a believable, historical character. I also disliked the escape by a certain character near ... Read More 
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