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

ISBN-13: 9780358393252

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Publication Date: 12-06-2022

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.10(d)

Alexander Rose is the author of Washington’s Spies (the basis for the AMC drama series, Turn), Empires of the Sky, Men of War, and several other nonfiction books. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He writes the Spionage newsletter at Substack.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Bloody Spot 1

1 On Secret Service 11

2 The White Gold 21

3 The Black Crow 35

4 The Crowning City 53

5 A River in Sicily 67

6 The First Raider 83

7 The War Rules 95

8 The Magician 115

9 The Dead Letter 127

10 Traitor to His Benefactor 145

11 The Lucky Shoemaker 159

12 The Man with No Hands 177

13 The Great Red God 185

14 Retribution 201

Acknowledgments 215

Notes 217

Bibliography 247

Illustration Credits 257

Index 259