Seth Hunter The Force of Fate Paperback Book

The ninth volume in the thrilling adventure series featuring Nathan Peake, British naval officer and spy, finds a young America divided against itself . . .1806 The United States faces an existential threat from within. Vice President Aaron Burr, feeling cheated of the presidency, conspires to destroy the Union and if he cant become president legally, to set himself up as the leader of a breakaway republic in the West. At the same time, President Jeffersons plan to outlaw the Atlantic slave trade provokes a secessionist movement in the Southern states. Mere decades after achieving independence from Great Britain, the young nation is in serious danger of falling apart. To further complicate matters, a French fleet escapes the British naval blockade and heads westward across the Atlantic. Onboard is Emperor Napoleons younger brother, Jerome, intent on exploiting Americas internal divisions to his and his countrys advantage. And in their wake, on a mission to assist the beleaguered President Jefferson, is the newly promoted commodore Nathan Peake with a small squadron of British warships led by the seventyfourgun Scipio. Nathan has his own problems to contend with, however, and at times they appear overwhelming. They include his pregnant lover who is under suspicion of being a French agent, his secretive and complicated association with the Bonaparte family, his own dissident officers, the proslavery faction in the British Navy, and an American double agent intent on exploiting... | Seth Hunter The Force of Fate Paperback Book