Ergebnis für "Patriot" in Historische Krimis

The 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Secrets that call into question decades of tax collecting. There is a surprising truth to this possibility—a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat.

In early 1937, the death of a neighboring Sheriff in Wilkes County, North Carolina, has officials looking for a temporary replacement and someone who can help to solve his murder. At the urging of surrounding community leaders retired Alleghany Sheriff Robert Bruce McMillan steps in. Partnering with Ashe County native and NCHP Lieutenant Holden Rash they discover a family secret and uncover a conspiracy.

Winter Reeves is an aristocratic Patriot forced to hide her heart amid the Loyalists of the City of New York. She has learned to keep her ears open so she can pass information on British movements to Robbie Townsend, her childhood friend, and his spy ring. Bennet Lane returns to New York from his Yale professorship with one goal: to find General Washington's spy hidden among the ranks of the elite. Both believers...and both committed to a separate cause. Will their faith in God lead them to a shared destiny or lives lived apart?