BRIAN KILMEADE and DON YAEGER are the coauthors of George Washington s Secret Six, a New York Times bestseller for more than five months. Kilmeade cohosts Fox News Channel s morning show Fox & Friends and hosts the daily national radio show Kilmeade & Friends. He lives on Long Island. This is his fourth book. Yaeger has written or cowritten twenty-four books and lives in Florida.
-Thomas Jefferson. Pirates. And national security. This is how you make history exciting. I dare you to put this book down.- --BRAD MELTZER, bestselling author of The President's Shadow -Reads like a fast-paced thriller but is actually a thoughtful account of America's first foray into what has become a complex part of the world.- --GENERAL STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL (Ret.), author of Team of Teams -This is a well-told tale, and there are lessons aplenty about both diplomacy and warfare--with useful application to the challenges the United States faces in our own time.- --PROFESSOR LARRY J. SABATO, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics; author of The Kennedy Half-Century -A fascinating story of extraordinary courage and resolve, and a brilliant reminder of an early chapter of our country's remarkable history.- --DONALD RUMSFELD