The French Spy: America At Risk

Can a governor's daughter find happiness with a French spy? In this thrilling spy/romance story, thousands of Americans gather at pier side to cheer the arrival of the fearsome 34-gun French frigate sailing into Charleston, South Carolina, on April 8, 1793. The cheers double, triple in volume as a colorfully dressed young Frenchman appears at the ship's bow, doffs his feathered chapeau, and waves at the throng. The governor's daughter all but swoons as he kisses her hand. The young Frenchman was the celebrated Adjutant General Edmond-Charles Genêt, and he had sailed the Atlantic to the United States as the first minister plenipotentiary, or ambassador of the French Republic to the United States of America.

What the welcoming crowd did not know, however, was that Citizen Genêt, as he was called by French revolutionaries, was also a master spy carrying two sets of instructions. One set directed him as ambassador to establish warm diplomatic relations with the young American nation. The other set directed the spymaster in him to ferret out his "mole" in the Washington administration and effect the overthrow of George Washington's government!