A Spy Amongst Us Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence | 3.49 MB
Title: A Spy Amongst Us Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence
Author: Marc Mierowsky
Category: Nonfiction, History, Modern, 20th Century, Biography & Memoir, Literary
Language: English | ISBN: 9781004111251
Description:
<B>The true story of Daniel Defoe and the dirty tricks which helped bring Scotland into union with England</B>
 
In 1706, Edinburgh was on the brink of a popular uprising. Men and women took to the streets to protest the planned union with England, fearing the end of Scottish sovereignty. But unbeknownst to the mob, a spy was in their midst—the English writer Daniel Defoe, now bankrupt and thrice pilloried, had turned a government agent.
 
Marc Mierowsky tells the dramatic story of Defoe and his fellow spies as they sabotaged the Scottish independence movement from the inside. Together they disseminated propaganda and built a network of operatives from London to the upper Highlands, providing the English government with up-to-the-minute intelligence and monitoring its adversaries’ every move.
 
Through the lives of Defoe and his ring, their handlers,...
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