Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
This is a hybrid work of historical fiction including both fictional and historically accurate information. A boy raised between two worlds becomes a spy for a network with no king and no country of its own. THE WINSLOW CIRCUIT carries Jonathan Winslow from Plymouth to the Caribbean, the Gulf Coast, and the rebellious Southern colonies - smuggling gold, gunpowder, and secrets toward a single July morning in Philadelphia.Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1755. Jonathan Winslow is just a boy when his grandfather shows him what the Winslow family has quietly protected for generations - not land, not money, but a promise: that no king profits from his people’s suffering without someone watching, and reporting, and one day settling the account. The network is called the Compact, and it answers to no crown.By 1774, the boy is grown, and the Compact needs him. What begins as an education becomes a circuit - a real, working smuggling and intelligence route that carries Jonathan the length of the Atlantic world: a Swedish royal court, the Spanish port of Cadiz, the sun-scorched harbor of Nassau, the docks of Havana, the muddy banks of the Mississippi, the rice plantations of the Carolina coast, and the guns massing at Sullivan’s Island. Every stop is a fragment of an argument building toward something Jonathan can feel coming before anyone dares say it aloud: independence.In a Nassau chandlery three weeks after Continental Marines raid the harbor for gunpowder, he meets a woman who gives her name as Isabela Serrano - and a story he doesn’t quite believe. She watches his hands, not his face, the instinct of someone who has already learned exactly what kind of world she’s moving through. What grows between them across the length of the circuit becomes one of the novel’s most quietly devastating threads.Real history crowds in at every turn: Oliver Pollock’s ledgers secretly financing a revolution no congress has yet declared, the improbable colonial victory at Sullivan’s Island, and Philadelphia itself holding its breath through the final, sweltering days of debate before independence is irrevocably declared. Jonathan moves through all of it as witness, courier, and instrument, carrying messages, money, and secrets across a continent that doesn’t yet know what it’s about to become.The Winslow Circuit is the first book in the Compact Trilogy, a sweeping work of American Revolution historical fiction that trades the well-trodden battlefield for the counting-houses, ports, and back rooms where a revolution actually gets financed, smuggled, and quietly made possible. Part espionage thriller, part slow-burn romance, part meditation on what ordinary people risk when history finally asks something of them, this founding-era saga will appeal to readers of colonial spy fiction, Atlantic-world adventure fiction, and anyone who has ever wondered what it actually took, behind the scenes, to get thirteen quarreling colonies to one signature on one July 4, 1776 morning.The circuit ends on the steps of the Pennsylvania State House. The Compact’s real work - and Jonathan’s - has only just begun.
