The Last Twelve Miles : A Novel

"1926, 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 weapon-one of the husband-and-wife pair who invented cryptanalysis and trained Great War soldiers-to crack smuggler codes, intercept t...