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Jack Gray
An American Spy
Philadelphia is occupied. The war is losing. And somewhere in the city, a private from the Third Virginia is becoming someone else entirely.
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Philadelphia is occupied. The war is losing. And somewhere in the city, a private from the Third Virginia is becoming someone else entirely.
Book One of the Jack Gray Series
New York, 1776. Three Continental soldiers are billeted at a Loyalist merchant's house on Broad Street. One of them is Jack Gray — quiet, methodical, and already watching.
When Lafayette recruits him into intelligence work, Jack becomes James Wren: pamphleteer, merchant's son, printer's apprentice. Someone he can be for a long time. The cover has to fit exactly, because Philadelphia is occupied, the chain is fragile, and the wrong word at the wrong dinner table will end everything.
Back in New York, Anne Fairfax is watching the same war from the other side of it — and passing what she learns upstream through a chain she can't see the end of.
Neither of them knows they are saving each other.
"James Wren was going to Philadelphia. Jack Gray was going with him."
— Jack Gray: An American Spy
About the Author
Alexander James writes historical fiction at the intersection of war, espionage, and loyalty. His debut novel follows Jack Gray from the snows of Revolutionary New Jersey to the occupied streets of Philadelphia and beyond.
He lives in the Seattle area with his wife and two cats.
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