ARGONAUT BOOKS

"An evocative and occasionally thrilling work of scholarship. Mierowsky is an expert guide to the labyrinthine underworld of early eighteenth-century espionage."-Joseph Hone, author of The Book Forger: The True Story of a Literary Crime that Fooled the World"This is not only a highly readable account of Defoe's role as the hired gun of English imperialism during the Union crisis of 1706-7, it is also a good introduction to the dark arts used to make the Union happen. An excellent, and sobering, illustration of the way one man's personal circumstances can play a vital role in altering the cours...Read More