Union between Scotland and England hangs in the balance. Propagandist, a spy for England and novelist-to-be Daniel Defoe (author of Robinson Crusoe) is caught up in this tale of intrigue and betrayal. This fictional account of Defoe''s espionage activities for England brings murky eighteenth-century Edinburgh to life. Expecting a godly society in the capital of Presbyterianism, Defoe is embroiled in allegiances and dark rumors.
Union between Scotland and England hangs in the balance. Propagandist, a spy for England and novelist-to-be Daniel Defoe (author of Robinson Crusoe) is caught up in this tale of intrigue and betrayal. This fictional account of Defoe s espionage activities for England brings murky eighteenth-century Edinburgh to life. Expecting a godly society in the capital of Presbyterianism, Defoe is embroiled in allegiances and dark rumors. Through his relationship with a beautiful Jacobite and a landlady who is not what she seems, Defoes espionage uncovers a scandal as poisonous as a nest of vipers.
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