STEALING INDEPENDENCE
A thrilling reimagining of how America was funded: a treasure, a heist, a stolen warship and the mastermind behind it all
1775. America is about to pick a fight with the richest empire on earth — with an army in rags and a treasury full of promises.
The history books say France paid for the Revolution. The history books were told exactly what to say.
Meet the man who told them. Benjamin Franklin — printer, scientist, celebrity, and the greatest heist man that ever lived — knows the coming war will be won by money before it is won by muskets. And he knows where the money is: the lost treasure of the Knights Templar, buried beneath the Tower of London and kept off every ledger of the kingdom for four and a half centuries.
To take it, he assembles the perfect crew: a silversmith who can forge anything, a tailor who dresses the enemy, a fugitive sea captain without a name, two brothers with a submarine — and a traitor who never learns whose side he’s really on.
The plan? Never break into the fortress. Trick the Crown into carrying its treasure out itself onto its own barges, behind its own escort, into the hold of its own warship then sail it home and launder a nation into existence.
Most of this book is true. That is the problem with it
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"A treasure no one may admit
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