THE SHADOW PATRIOT

Jonathan's Story II

By: JAMES SHORT

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Jonathan’s Story Continues
“Bravo! Bravo! I am enjoying this game immensely, and I will be sad when it ends. But ‘twill end, I promise you, Mr. Asher. You need to win with the cards you hold every time; I only need to win once.”
Revolutionary New York City:
Where the British officers dance, gamble, foxhunt, and take over the homes of the residents while in the burnt-out neighborhoods thousands of refugees huddle in canvas shelters, and captured Continental soldiers starve in the churches, warehouses and ships converted into prisons. A dangerous city but the perfect place for a war profiteer, and a spy, and a seeker of justice for the murderers of the woman he loved.
Yet for Jonathan, there is also the New York of Elizabeth, a milliner, whom he is courting, of two orphans. Emma and Daniel, whom he has taken into his care, and friends like his business partner the former slave Gabriel, his brother William, and sister-in-law Nancy.
Jonathan’s enemies—the murderers he stalks, the profiteers who covet his lucrative trade in smuggled French wine, the officers of British intelligence—suspect and close in.
Plots, counterplots, duels, and betrayals ensue.
As the Revolutionary War draws to its climax at Yorktown, Jonathan’s world of subterfuge begins to come apart, and he must find a way to protect those he loves and maybe even survive.