The Lion And The Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

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Alexander Rose

The Lion And The Fox

Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

Alexander Rose

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Mariner Books
18 May 2023

American Civil War

From 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.

In 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.

The 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.”

From 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.

By: Alexander Rose
Imprint: Mariner Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 432g
ISBN: 9780358393252
ISBN 10: 0358393256
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 18 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alexander Rose is the author of the New York Times bestselling Washington's Spies (basis of the AMC original series Turn), among several other nonfiction books. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.

Reviews for The Lion And The Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

Genius . . . a definitive tale of an incredible time. - Keith O'Brien, New York Times, on Empires of the Sky Strikingly vivid, well-observed, and compulsively readable . . . with shockingly evocative narrative reconstructions and penetrating, precise analysis . . . A tour de force. - Daily Beast on Men of War [Rose] captures the human dimension of spying, war and leadership. - Wall Street Journal on Washington's Spies Rose gives us intrigue, crossed signals, derring-do, and a priceless slice of eighteenth-century life. - Richard Brookhiser, author of Founding Father, on Washington's Spies A compelling portrait of [a] rogues' gallery of barkeeps, misfits, hypochondriacs, part-time smugglers, and full-time neurotics that will remind every reader of the cast of a John le Carre novel. - National Review on Washington's Spies Alexander Rose tells this important story with style and wit. - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph J. Ellis, on Washington's Spies Fascinating . . . Spies proved to be the tipping point in the summer of 1778, helping Washington begin breaking the stalemate with the British. . . . [Alexander] Rose's book brings to light their crucial help in winning American independence. - Chicago Tribune, on Washington's Spies Men of War?is deeply researched, beautifully written. It is military history at its best. - The Wall Street Journal, on Men of War