A Spy Amongst Us Travel & holiday It has the pace of

It has the pace of a thriller and the weight of poetry' EVIE WYLD'Urgent

As he contends with the expectations of his family

and will become an enduring reflection on life in the early twenty-first century

Originally published in late 1939

A Spy Amongst Us Travel & holiday It has the pace ofThe true story of Daniel Defoe and the dirty tricks which helped bring Scotland into union with England. In 1706, Edinburgh was on the brink of a popular uprising. Men and women took to the streets to protest the planned union with England, fearing the end of Scottish sovereignty. But unbeknownst to the mob, a spy was in their midst the English writer Daniel Defoe, now bankrupt and thrice pilloried, had turned a government agent. Marc Mierowsky tells