Two real, brilliant women on two sides of the law, in a daring game of cat and mouse1926, Washington, D. C.In the Prohibition Rum Wars, the Coast Guard is losing. Eleven million gallons of illegal liquor a year have created a booming smuggling economy, with criminals wreaking havoc on American cities, and everyday citizens thumbing their noses at Uncle Sam. But the Coast Guard has a new, secret weaponone of the husbandandwife pair who invented cryptanalysis and trained Great War soldiersto crack smuggler codes, intercept traffic, and destroy the trade, one skiff at a time. That secret weapon is a 52 mastermind in heels, who also happens to be a wife and mother Mrs. Elizebeth Smith Friedman.BahamasWhen Marie Waitewife of a rumrunner and mother of two little onesnotices discrepancies in cargo, she insists on accompanying her husband, Charlie, on a run from their home in Miami to Nassau. There, not only does Marie witness her husbands shortcomings, but she becomes enthralled by Cleo Lythgoe, "The Bahama Queen," who announces her retirement while regaling the thugs at the bar with tales of murder and mayhem on the high seas. In spite of Cleos warnings about a "new man in the government" who seems to know where they are before they get there, Marie knows an opportunity when she sees it, and she wants the crown for herself so badly she can taste it.So begins Maries plan to rise as rumrunner royalty long enough to get her family in the black. What she didnt count on was that the...

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