He chooses Abraham Hobhouse, an American-born barrister with an English wife-a man who doesn’t really need the work and thinks the “career-building” case will be easily resolved through a settlement of the revolution and Washington’s release. England’s most famous barristers seek to represent him but he insists on using an American. Upon their arrival in London, Washington is imprisoned in the Tower to await trial on charges of high treason. Black manages-just-to get Washington aboard the Peregrine, which sails away. Once he lands, though, the “aid by Loyalists” proves problematic because some would prefer just to kill the general outright. His mission, aided by Loyalists, is to kidnap George Washington and spirit him back to London aboard the HMS Peregrine, a British sloop of war that is waiting closely offshore.
The revolution is in full swing but has become deadlocked.
“A clever and imaginative tale.” -Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling authorĪ thought-provoking novel that imagines what would have happened if the British had succeeded in kidnapping General George Washington.īritish special agent Jeremiah Black, an officer of the King’s Guard, lands on a lonely beach in the wee hours of the morning in late November 1780.
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