Between the Confederacy and recognition by Great Britain stood one unlikely Englishman who hated the slave trade. His actions helped determine the fate of a nation. When Robert Bunch arrived in Charleston to take up the post of British consul in 1853, he was young and full of ambition, but even he couldn’t have imagined the incredible role he would play in the history-making events to unfold. In an age when diplomats often were spies, Bunch’s job included sending intelligence back to the British government in London. Yet as the United States threatened to erupt into Civil War, Bunch found himself plunged into a double life, settling into an amiable routine with his slavery-loving neighbors on the one hand, while working furiously to thwart their plans to achieve a new Confederacy. As secession and war approached, the Southern states found themselves in an impossible position. They knew that recognition from Great Britain would be essential to the survival of the Confederacy, and also that such recognition was likely to be withheld if the South reopened the Atlantic slave trade. But as Bunch meticulously noted from his perch in Charleston, secession’s red-hot epicenter, that trade was growing. And as Southern leaders continued to dissemble publicly about their intentions, Bunch sent dispatch after secret dispatch back to the Foreign Office warning of the truth—that economic survival would force the South to import slaves from Africa in massive numbers. When the gears of war finally began to turn, and Bunch was pressed into service on an actual spy mission to make contact with the Confederate government, he found himself in the middle of a fight between the Union and Britain that threatened, in the boast of Secretary of State William Seward, to “wrap the world in flames.” In this masterfully told story, Christopher Dickey introduces Consul Bunch as a key figure in the pitched battle between those who wished to reopen the floodgates of bondage and misery, and those who wished to dam the tide forever. Featuring a remarkable cast of diplomats, journalists, senators, and spies, Our Man in Charleston captures the intricate, intense relationship between great powers on the brink of war.

Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South

Biographies & Memoirs

Dickey, Christopher

Historical

Crown

An account of the "secret" war in Central America concentrates on the people involved, from "Suicida," a sergeant in the Samozoan National Guard, and his guerrillas caught in the daily violence, to CIA operatives

With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua (A Touchstone Book)

History

Americas

Touchstone

Kurt Kurtovic, a disillusioned ex-U.S. Army ranger, travels to Bosnia to search out his family's roots and finds instead a holy warrior who recruits him to become part of the war against the United States. 25,000 first printing.

Innocent Blood: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Simon&Schuster

A well-known journalist explores the volatile relationship he shared with his father, acclaimed poet James Dickey, with whom he reconciled in 1994 after years of estrangement and in whose final sobriety he found love. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

Summer of Deliverance : A Memoir of Father and Son

Arts & Literature

He is the perfect terrorist. He's an all-American boy. Kurt Kurtovic is someone you might know -- and ought to fear. Kurt was a U.S. Army Ranger. Born and raised in Kansas, he was trained to kill for -- what? Once he might have said "for God and country." Kurt searches in the former Yugoslavia, the land of his parents, for a place, for faith, for a cause. In the midst of the horrors in Bosnia, Kurt is recruited to fight by a holy warrior, a terrorist Iago, who plays on all of Kurt's doubts and fears: America is the evil behind the horror, but Kurt can change it. He can take the war home. He can penetrate to the heart of the U.S. elite. He can teach his country a lesson so horrible it will never forget. In this riveting story of war, love, and deception, Christopher Dickey takes us to the white-hot core of the terrorist mind. Innocent Blood is as real as today's headlines -- and tomorrow's.

Summer of Deliverance is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father. Hailed as a literary genius of his generation, James Dickey created his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion. He was a heavy drinker, a destructive husband and father, a poet of grace and sensitivity, and, after the publication and subsequent film of his novel, Deliverance, a wildly popular literary star. Drawing on letters, notebooks, diaries, and his explicit conversations with his father, Christopher Dickey has crafted a superb memoir of the corrosive effects of fame, a moving remembrance of a crisis that united a family, and an inspiring celebration of love between father and son.

Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son

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Summer Of Deliverance: A Memoir Of Father And Son

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In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, a former Al Qaeda operative decides to hunt down and strike his former comrades, a campaign that is thwarted when his own family is targeted and operatives stationed in America decide to raise the stakes. 30,000 first printing.

The Sleeper: A Novel

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Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South

Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South

With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua (A Touchstone Book)

Innocent Blood: A Novel

Summer of Deliverance : A Memoir of Father and Son

Innocent Blood: A Novel

Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son

Summer Of Deliverance: A Memoir Of Father And Son

Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son

The Sleeper: A Novel