Think of Alan Furst with muskets." -Richard Brookhiser, author of Founding Father "Rose gives us intrigue, crossed signals, derring-do, and a priceless slice of eighteenth-century life. from the naive twenty-one-year-old Nathan Hale, who was captured and executed, to the quietly cunning Benjamin Tallmadge, who organized the ring in 1778, to the traitorous Benedict Arnold." - The Wall Street Journal " captures the human dimension of spying, war and leadership. Rose's book brings to light their crucial help in winning American independence." - Chicago Tribune Spies proved to be the tipping point in the summer of 1778, helping Washington begin breaking the stalemate with the British. "Alexander Rose tells this important story with style and wit." -Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph J. Previously published as Washington's Spies For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed individuals who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors-including the spymaster at the heart of it all, George Washington. Basing his tale on remarkable original research, historian Alexander Rose reveals the unforgettable story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War.
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