Fuego en el Misisipi

There was a time when the fate of America was decided in the taverns of New Orleans. Spain, in the shadows, moved its pieces as a new nation was born. A young spy infiltrated conspirators, merchants, and patriots on a mission that could change everything. This is the story no one told you about the independence of the United States. Fire on the Mississippi unveils the gripping story—inspired by true events—of Alfonso Salazar, a young man who flees pain and loss to reinvent himself in vibrant Spanish Louisiana. Under a false identity, and in the service of the government of Charles III, he becomes a privileged witness to diplomatic intrigues, Creole rebellions, and the birth of a nation. Among spies, conspirators, merchants, and revolutionaries, Alfonso faces moral dilemmas, impossible loves, and the weight of history that is written with every step. In the finest tradition of adventure narratives, Juan Pérez-Foncea brings to light a little-known but crucial episode: the decisive Spanish intervention in the American Revolution. A novel that blends rigor and emotion, adventure and memory, to shed light on a fire—that of the Mississippi—which still burns at the foundations of the modern world.