Join us Thurs., Sept., 17, 12 pm for a special Author’s Luncheon featuring Christopher Dickey. The talk and lunch will be at Hall’s Chophouse (434 King St.). Tickets are $30 for lunch only, or $59 for lunch and a signed copy of Our Man in Charleston: Britain’s Secret Agent in the Civil War South (Crown, hb., 400 pp.). Following lunch, there will be a book signing at Blue Bicycle Books. Tickets may be purchased online here, or through our 24/7 ticket hotline number 800.838.3006. For special handling call 843.303.1113.
All tickets include the champagne reception at Blue Bicycle Books follows the event. Doors open at 11:30 AM and lunch is served promptly at noon. Limited seating provides an intimate experience with the author.
About Our Man in Charleston: When Robert Bunch arrived in Charleston to take up the post of British consul in 1853, he was young and full of ambition, but even he couldn’t have imagined the incredible role he would play in the history-making events to unfold. In an age when diplomats often were spies, Bunch’s job included sending intelligence back to the British government in London. Yet as the United States threatened to erupt into Civil War, Bunch found himself plunged into a double life, settling into an amiable routine with his slavery-loving neighbors on the one hand, while working furiously to thwart their plans to achieve a new Confederacy.
About the author: Award-winning author Christopher Dickey is the Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Editor for The Daily Beast. Previously he worked for Newsweek Magazine in the same position, and before that for The Washington Post as Cairo Bureau Chief and Central America Bureau Chief. Chris’s books include the classic With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua; Expats: Travels from Tripoli to Tehran; Innocent Blood, and Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son; Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force — the NYPD, published in 2009 and chosen by The New York Times as one of the notable books of the year. His history of intrigues on the eve of the American Civil War, The Charleston Consul, will be published by Crown in 2015.
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