![]() ![]() From its creation until the very day of its dissolution, there is a written, detailed, sometimes almost daily record of the Ring’s activities, travails, and triumphs. Uniquely, their long correspondence with George Washington survives almost intact. It’s actually quite difficult to write a book about spooks because they are not, to put it mildly, the type of people who habitually keep fatally incriminating documents lying around.īut eventually I found my perfect spies: The Culper Ring. ![]() So now I had my general subject, but which spies should I write about? That’s where the trouble started. ![]() Put it this way, the last academic article written about Revolutionary ciphers had appeared in. A traitor of the darkest dye I of course knew him to be, but I wanted to know more about the role of espionage in the War of Independence.ĭespite assuming that such an obvious subject had already been done to death - I mean, what aspect of the American Revolution has not been already written about in the minutest detail?-I failed to find much available in any of the major library catalogues I consulted. ![]() I can remember clearly the day I stumbled upon the idea of writing the story of the Culper Ring: I had been reading a biography of Benedict Arnold as background for a completely different project idea and I began to wonder whether there was more to his story than the barebones version we are usually told. ![]()
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