A Statue for Jacob

A Statue for Jacob

by Peter Murphy
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 04/07/2021

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'This debt was not contracted as the price of bread or wine or arms. It was the price of liberty' - Alexander Hamilton


Kiah Harmon, a young Virginia lawyer, is just emerging from the most traumatic time of her life when actress Sam van Eyck walks into her office, unannounced, with the case of a lifetime. She asks Kiah to recover a 200-year-old debt from the US Government - a debt that goes right back to the time of Alexander Hamilton.


The selfless generosity of Sam's ancestor, Jacob van Eyck, in making a massive loan of gold and supplies at Valley Forge, during the freezing winter of 1777-1778, may well have saved George Washington's army, and the War of Independence, from disaster. But it reduced Jacob to ruin. Despite the government's promises, the debt was never repaid, and this hero of the American Revolution died in poverty, unknown and unrecognised.


Two hundred years later, Sam and Kiah embark on a quest to change that. But first, they will have to find the evidence, and overcome a stubborn Government determined to frustrate their every move.


Will Sam and Kiah succeed in finally getting Jacob the statue he deserves?

ISBN:
9780857304186
9780857304186
Category:
Political / legal thriller
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
04-07-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oldcastle Books
Peter Murphy

Born in 1946, Peter Murphy graduated from Cambridge University and pursued a career in the law in England, the United States and The Hague.

In 2007, he took up an appointment as a judge of the Crown Court and later retired as Resident Judge and Honorary Recorder of Peterborough in 2015.

Peter started writing fiction more than twenty years ago, but following his retirement from the bench, he became a full-time author. Peter passed away in July 2022.

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