“A smart and imaginative tale.” -Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author

A thought-provoking book that imagines what could have occurred if the British had succeeded in kidnapping General George Washington.

British special agent Jeremiah Black, an officer of the King’s Guard, lands on the depressed beach in the wee hours from the morning in past due November 1780. The revolution is completely swing but is becoming deadlocked. Black is here to change all that.

His objective, aided by Loyalists, is about The Trial and Execution from the Traitor George Washington to kidnap George Washington and heart him back again to London aboard the HMS Peregrine, a Uk sloop of war that’s waiting around closely offshore. Once he lands, though, the “help by Loyalists” shows problematic because some would like just to eliminate the general outright. Black manages-just-to obtain Washington aboard the Peregrine, which sails away.

Upon their arrival in London, Washington is imprisoned in the Tower to await trial on charges of high treason. England’s most well-known barristers seek to represent him but he insists on using an American. He selects Abraham Hobhouse, an American-born barrister with an British wife-a man who doesn’t really need the task and feels the “career-building” case will end up being easily resolved through a settlement of the trend and Washington’s discharge. But as higher political and military forces swirl around them and peacefulness seems a lot more faraway, Hobhouse finds that he’s the only thing keeping Washington from your hangman’s noose.

Sketching inspiration from a rumored kidnapping plot hatched in 1776 by a member of Washington’s have Commander-in-Chief Guard, Charles Rosenberg has written a engaging novel that envisions what would take place if the first choice of America’s fledgling rebellion had been taken from the nation at the height of the war, imperiling any chance of victory.