Bücher der Reihe A Swift & Dancer Adventure

BY THE SPRING OF 1846...the tinderbox of the Mexican-American War needs only a first spark to explode. Two powerful enemies plot Mexico's defeat for diabolically opposing reasons. President Polk enlists secret agent Jack Dancer for a suicide mission to single-handedly expose the Southern slavocracy's plot to steal victory from the American Army and claim new territory for slavery...as America's Manifest Destiny hangs in the balance. On a collision course with her own destiny the headstrong war correspondent Samantha Swift races to the Rio Grande to report exclusively on the looming battles from behind Mexican lines. Failure risks forfeiting her vast...and stolen...newspaper fortune.But as their lives collide from New York and Charleston to New Orleans and Matamoros Swift and Dancer are thrust into a struggle against all odds to unscramble a grisly murder...outwit a mysterious organization out to kill them...and decipher the key to a lost treasure...before war destroys everything.Discover an era torn apart by greed and power but united by the tenacity of Swift and Dancer.