Catch Me If You Can!
Ready for a little cat-and-mouse game? If so, you're ready for The Last 12 Miles by Erika Robuck. She pits a crypto analysis agent, Elizabeth Friedman, against Spanish Marie, a rum runner. The story takes place during the roaring twenties when prohibition was part of life. Which side will you pick? Synopsis: “1926. Washington, D.C. The Coast Guard is losing the Prohibition Rum War, but they have a new, secret weapon to crack smuggler codes, intercept traffic, and destroy the rum trade one skiff at a time. That secret weapon is a 5'2" mastermind in heels, who also happens to be a wife and mother: Mrs. Elizebeth Smith Friedman, one half of the husband-and-wife pair who invented cryptanalysis. Bahamas Cleo Lythogoe, the Bahama Queen, announces her retirement while regaling the thugs at the bar with tales of murder and mayhem on the high seas. Marie Waite, listening in, knows an opportunity when she hears it, and she wants the crown for herself so...