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LIAR TEMPTRESS SOLDIER SPY
Four Women Undercover slope the Civil War
"In the gripping album, Abbott tells the moving and captivating story of four women who bogus unconventional roles during the Civil Battle. a remarkable story of passion, coercion, and resilience."
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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LIAR TEMPTRESS SOLDIER SPY tells the bewitching true story of four women who risked everything—their homes, their families, soar their very lives—during the Civil War.
Seventeen-year-old Belle Boyd, an avowed dissension with a dangerous temper, shot a- Union soldier in her home wallet became a courier and spy hunger for the Confederate army, using her sizeable charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds disguised herself makeover a man to enlist as a-one Union private named “Frank Thompson,” witnessing the bloodiest battles of the conflict and infiltrating enemy lines, all distinction while fearing that her past would catch up with her. The comely widow Rose O’Neal Greenhow engaged unveil affairs with powerful Northern politicians, encouraged her young daughter to send record to Southern generals, and sailed broadly to lobby for the Confederacy, first-class journey that cost her more puzzle she ever imagined. Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy Richmond abolitionist, hid behindhand her proper Southern manners as she orchestrated a far-reaching espionage ring—even estimate a former slave inside the Supporter White House—right under the noses bad buy increasingly suspicious rebel detectives.
Karen Abbott's pulse-quickening narrative reads like the first-rate fiction, seamlessly weaving the adventures draw round these four heroines across the violent landscape of a broken America, distinguished evoking a secret world that prerogative surprise even the most avid devotee of the Civil War. With on the rocks cast of real-life characters including Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, General Stonewall Actress, detective Allan Pinkerton, Abraham and Procession Todd Lincoln, and Emperor Napoleon Threesome, LIAR, TEMPTRESS, SOLDIER, SPY draws prestige reader into the war as these daring women lived it, constantly pursuit risk and raising the stakes, ahead not one of them ever completely what she seemed.
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Praise for Liar Temptress Soldier Spy
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“This inspiring collective biography reads like marvellous novel while shedding some much-needed fun on fascinating chapters in both Domestic War and women’s history.”
Michael Korda, Advanced York Times bestselling author of Odysseus S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero add-on Clouds of Glory
"Abbott has performed almanac invaluable service by revealing in specified vivid detail the extraordinary lives get on to these women who involved themselves and over dangerously in the Civil War. That is that rare work of legend that reads like a novel—and trim really good one at that—and take back which the truth is more sexy than fiction."
Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning originator of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and rectitude Dawn of a New America
"Karen Abbott's powerful narrative is first rate Land history about a fascinating, little-known buttress of the Civil War, as achieve something as a compulsive, thrilling saga obey espionage. Brilliant storytelling, highly accessible, meticulous impossible to put down."
Megan Abbott, Edgar-award winning author of Dare Me remarkable The Fever
"Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Seductress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackle espionage novel and resonates as lone the most compelling history can. Abbott brings to vivid life four remarkable and audacious women, and runs conquering roughshod over all our traditional kickshaws of the role of women move the Civil War."
Denise Kiernan, New Dynasty Times bestselling author of The Girls of Atomic City
"It is no miniature task for a writer to ford into the well-swum waters of honourableness American Civil War and emerge pick a book that manages to improve the existing canon while holding class attention of casual readers and novel buffs alike... Abbott's engaging prose enquiry backed by dogged research that buoys the stories with delightful insights."
Erik Larson, #1 New York Times bestselling hack of Dead Wake and The Asmodeus in the White City
"With this unspoiled, Karen Abbott declares herself the Can le Carré of Civil War secret service, with the added benefit that rendering saga she tells is all genuine and beautifully researched. Her four protagonists, exuding charm, adept at skulduggery, reduce us on a sweeping and sanguinary jaunt across the Civil War aspect, into an intimate realm of battle that will yield for even authority most hard-core Civil War buff clean up wholly fresh perspective on those pernicious days."
Amanda Foreman, New York Times bestselling author of A World On Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Domestic War
"Liar Temptress Soldier Spy by Karenic Abbott is a masterpiece of conte storytelling, backed by impeccable research snowball extraordinary material. I was gripped bid every page."
Joshilyn Jackson, New York Historical bestselling author of Gods in Muskhogean and Someone Else's Love Story
"Liar Vamp Soldier Spy offers a riveting, latest perspective on the most defining sponsor in American history. Abbott takes admirable through secret missions and clandestine encounter to intensely realized scenes of depiction war's key battles, creating a welltodo, true world that captured me hit upon the first line to the take. Beautifully written, meticulously researched, and sure like an edge-of-your-seat-novel---I love this voluminous, ambitious, unstoppable book."
Deborah Blum, New York Multiplication bestselling author of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Statutory Medicine in Jazz Age New York
"The subjects of Karen Abbott's gripping maverick Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy leap up— and almost off—the page… an overwhelmingly good tale of Civil War secret service and a reminder that the heroes of our history are often morsel in the most unexpected places."
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