The Mosquito God: Theodore Roosevelt's Spy Game

WASHINGTON, D.C., 1903 . . .

After twenty years, the French attempt to dig a Panama Canal is at last faltering-and President Theodore Roosevelt smells an opportunity. But before he can send in American gunboats, he'll need eyes and ears on the ground in Panama. But whose?

Roosevelt's Secretary of State, John Hay, schemes up the perfect solution. He'll ask two of his best young spies-Max Bellefonte and Hannah Black-to make a honeymoon trip to Panama. There they can observe and report back wit...