Interview with Craig Britton, Forty-Ninth co-writer (Alaska Payment Conspiracy novel)

Interview with one of the authors of Forty-Ninth, a historical saga about the United States acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire, the mystery surrounding the disappearing payment, and the international loans given by a powerful banking family.

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The Alaska Payment Conspiracy is a conspiracy theory that the Russian Empire never received payment for the Alaska purchase from the United States, and that instead the ship, the Orkney, that carried the payment in gold was detonated for insurance money by Alexander 'Sandy' Keith, a con artist and explosives expert.
The Orkney supposedly sank in the Baltic Sea, on route to St. Petersburg from London, the then capital of the Russian Empire. Alexander Keith, who was known by several aliases, including William Thompson, had experience previously exploding ships to claim insurance money in Europe. His most well-known was that of the Mosel which occurred later.

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