"A fictitious history enriches this modern spy novel. In Tobacco Republic, R. A. Moss imagines what might have happened if a weary Thomas Jefferson had failed to convince the American colonies to unite. The novel jumps from that unfortunate past into a global cloak-and-dagger story that is the stubborn colonies’ perilous future. States are each other’s enemies. Parts of Europe (also politically re-imagined) are contenders for the riches of these small, underdeveloped nations. Lovers of spy novels know that fast-paced treachery, betrayal, and gamesmanship are almost always fun. In this novel, they are thought-provoking, too."

Rebecca Coffey - Author and journalist (Forbes, NPR)

"Tobacco Republic is a crackling spy thriller set like a jewel in a wild but timely counterhistory. The thirteen American colonies never united, their conflicts imperil the world, and the “health scare” around cigarettes never got traction. Smoke ’em if you got ’em!."

Charlie Haas, author of The Current Fantasy and The Enthusiast ​
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"In his fascinating novel R. A. Moss flashes back to various historical periods to show how an alternative history evolved, upsetting our notions of what the Declaration of Independence meant, how slavery and the results of the Civil War played out, and how all this leads up to the novel’s present time where the thirteen colonies never united and two former colonies are on the verge of going to war."

John Kachuba, author of Shapeshifters: A History