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　　Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian

Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that

helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, 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.

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. 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.

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. Personally guiding these

imperfect everyday heroes was Washington himself. In an era when

officers were gentlemen, and gentlemen didn’t spy, he possessed an

extraordinary talent for deception—and proved an adept

spymaster.

The men he mentored were dubbed the Culper Ring. The British

secret service tried to hunt them down, but they escaped by the

closest of shaves thanks to their ciphers, dead drops, and

invisible ink. Rose’s thrilling narrative tells the unknown story

of the Revolution–the murderous intelligence war, gunrunning and

kidnapping, defectors and executioners—that has never appeared in

the history books. But Washington’s Spies is also a spirited,

touching account of friendship and trust, fear and betrayal, amid

the dark and silent world of the spy.

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　　Alexander Rose earned his doctorate from Cambridge University,

where his prizewinning research focused on political and scientific

history. He is the author of Kings in the North: The House of

Percy in British History, and his writing has appeared in the

New York Observer, the Washington Post, and many

other publications. He lives in New York City.

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Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, 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.

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. 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.

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. Personally guiding these imperfect everyday heroes was Washington himself. In an era when officers were gentlemen, and gentlemen didn’t spy, he possessed an extraordinary talent for deception—and proved an adept spymaster.

The men he mentored were dubbed the Culper Ring. The British secret service tried to hunt them down, but they escaped by the closest of shaves thanks to their ciphers, dead drops, and invisible ink. Rose’s thrilling narrative tells the unknown story of the Revolution–the murderous intelligence war, gunrunning and kidnapping, defectors and executioners—that has never appeared in the history books. But Washington’s Spies is also a spirited, touching account of friendship and trust, fear and betrayal, amid the dark and silent world of the spy.

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