Whiskey Rebels

David Liss's bestselling historical thrillers, including A Conspiracy of Paper and The Coffee Trader have been called remarkable and rousing. Now Liss delivers a novel about America in an entirely new setting - the years after the Revolution, an unstable nation where desperate schemers vie for wealth, power, and a chance to shape a country's destiny. Driven by the bitter power struggle between Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton and arch-political rival Thomas Jefferson, contending efforts to realize prosperity, power & influence clash: one, a run amok new method of distilling whiskey on the isolated Pennsylvania frontier; the other, the fledgling throes of the Bank of the United States. 525p.