The men he mentored were dubbed the Culper Ring. In an era when officers were gentlemen, and gentlemen didn’t spy, he possessed an extraordinary talent for deception-and proved an adept spymaster. Personally guiding these imperfect everyday heroes was Washington himself. Washington’s small band included a young Quaker torn between political principle and family loyalty, a swashbuckling sailor addicted to the perils of espionage, a hard-drinking barkeep, a Yale-educated cavalryman and friend of the doomed Nathan Hale, and a peaceful, sickly farmer who begged Washington to let him retire but who always came through in the end. To that end, he unleashed his secret weapon: an unlikely ring of spies in New York charged with discovering the enemy’s battle plans and military strategy. In the summer of 1778, with the war poised to turn in his favor, General George Washington desperately needed to know where the British would strike next. Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors-including the spymaster at the heart of it all. Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War.
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