Sign-In
Cart
The Spy's Game
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 21 2025
Pages: 474
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 1745, as war between France and Britain spreads across the Atlantic, Lieutenant Lucien Arnaud is sent to the isolated fortress of Louisbourg under secret orders from Captain Jean Lefleur, a seasoned intelligence officer who believes someone inside the colony is feeding military information to the enemy.
Perched on the harsh coast of New France, Louisbourg is a fortress built to defend an empire-but beneath its stone walls, fear, exhaustion, and suspicion have already begun eroding it from within. Harbor schedules vanish into British hands. Supply routes are compromised. Rumors spread faster than official orders. While soldiers prepare for siege and civilians struggle through another brutal Atlantic season, Lucien quietly investigates taverns, warehouses, military offices, and crowded harbor streets where loyalty is often measured against survival.
Far from the courts of Versailles, Louisbourg is a world of fishermen, dockworkers, merchants, widows, priests, and soldiers trying to preserve ordinary life beneath the shadow of approaching war. As suspicion spreads through the fortress and British forces close in across the Atlantic, Lucien finds himself caught between military duty, growing paranoia, and the difficult reality that war rarely destroys only armies.
But espionage is rarely fought on battlefields alone.
As the siege tightens around Louisbourg, friendships become uncertain, trust grows fragile, and the line between loyalty and survival begins to collapse beneath the weight of fear, exhaustion, and impossible choices.
Blending historical realism, espionage, and emotional restraint, The Spy's Game is a slow-burning historical novel about suspicion, endurance, sacrifice, and the ordinary people trapped inside the machinery of empire during one of the most dangerous moments in early North American history.
Also in
Mystery & Thriller
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, the Cold Six Thousand; Introduction by Thomas Mallon
Ellroy, James
Hardcover
Coffin Road: An Utterly Gripping Crime Thriller from the Author of the China Thrillers
May, Peter
Paperback
Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Movie Tie-In Edition): Book 1 of the Millennium Trilogy
Larsson, Stieg
Paperback
The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
Big Little Truths: Reese's Book Club: A Novel: The Sequel to Big Little Lies
Moriarty, Liane
Hardcover
The Pirate Queen: A Novel from the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Frozen River
Lawhon, Ariel
Hardcover