The lion and the fox : two rival spies and the secret plot to build a Confederate Navy
(Book on CD)
Author
Contributors
Bramhall, Mark, narrator.
Published
New York, NY : Harper Audio, [2022].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
Nipomo Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
973.75
1 available
973.75
1 available
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LC Subjects
Audiobooks.
Bulloch, James Dunwody, -- 1823-1901.
Confederate States of America. -- Navy -- History.
Consuls -- United States -- Biography.
Dudley, Thomas H. -- (Thomas Haines), -- 1819-1893.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Spies -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Blockades.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Secret service.
Warships -- Confederate States of America -- History.
Bulloch, James Dunwody, -- 1823-1901.
Confederate States of America. -- Navy -- History.
Consuls -- United States -- Biography.
Dudley, Thomas H. -- (Thomas Haines), -- 1819-1893.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Spies -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Blockades.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Secret service.
Warships -- Confederate States of America -- History.
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Published
New York, NY : Harper Audio, [2022].
Format
Book on CD
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
PDF on disc 7.
Participants/Performers
Read by Mark Bramhall.
Description
In 1861, soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, two secret agents, one a Confederate, the other his Union rival, were dispatched to neutral Britain, each entrusted with a vital mission. The South's James Bulloch, charming and devious, was to acquire a cutting-edge clandestine fleet intended to break President Lincoln's blockade of Confederate ports, sink Northern merchant vessels, and drown the U.S. Navy's mightiest ships at sea. The profits from gunrunning and smuggling cotton, Dixie's notorious "white gold," would finance the scheme. Opposing him was Thomas Dudley, a resolute Quaker lawyer and abolitionist. He was determined to stop Bulloch by any means necessary in a spy-versus-spy game of move and countermove, gambit and sacrifice, intrigue and betrayal. If Dudley failed, Britain would ally with the South and imperil a Northern victory. The battleground was the Dickensian port of Liverpool, whose dockyards built more ships each year than the rest of the world combined, whose warehouses stored more cotton than anywhere else on earth, and whose merchant princes, said one observer, were "addicted to Southern proclivities, foreign slave trade, and domestic bribery."
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