Water Street
Liverpool 1863.
The American Civil War comes to the British Empire’s second city and the world’s richest port.
Confederate Commander Banastre X. Dunwoody has a plan to turn the conflict by securing advanced warships, but the U.S. Government is one step ahead of him. It seeks to sabotage his efforts through its covert agent – Harriet Dunwoody – Banastre’s pregnant wife.
Alongside her undercover partner Conté, Harriet discovers that Banastre has plans to do more than building ships; he has a scheme that could very well draw Britain into the war.
As Gettysburg looms an ocean away, there’s another battle to be won and lost. The fate of the USA and the City of Liverpool rests upon it.
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About
J.P. Maxwell
With a background ranging from studying Russian at University College London to working for a Californian Software company and running a newspaper kiosk, JP Maxwell settled back in Liverpool in 2001 and now teaches Screenwriting and Digital Writing at Liverpool John Moores University. Although fictional, his writing directly links to an Irish and African family history in the port city and specifically Toxteth since the early 1800s.
In addition to Water Street and The Americans of Abercromby Square, published by BK Fiction and based upon Liverpool’s clandestine involvement in the American Civil War, he is writing a spy/crime novel CAMPER VAN WOMAN based upon his adventures in Eastern Europe and 1980s Toxteth.
An award-winning filmmaker, JP has produced or directed 16 short films and 3 feature films since 1998, acclaimed at such festivals as Karlovy Vary, Rome, BFI London Film Festival and commercially distributed, including network broadcasts on BBC Television.
The Americans of
Abercromby Square
England, 1865.
President Abraham Lincoln is dead and the trail leads all the way across the Atlantic to Liverpool.
Pressed back into action by the kidnap of her child, Harriet Farrell must hunt down the only Lincoln conspirator to flee America and escape the noose. Her former boss, and puppet master, Benjamin Butler demands it. Meanwhile, with a new British invasion of the United States pending, Harriet soon realises that her dream of a normal life will not come true until she saves her country once again.
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