CONTENTS CASUS BELLI Dodging Danger Terrible Taxes Build Bad Feelings CHAPTERS CH 1 A Perfect Environment for Espionage CH 2 Covert Actions and Dirty Tricks CH 3 Women Make an Impact CH 4 From Betrayal to Success AT WAR’S END Victory and Independence COVERT OPS Coding by the Book The Slave Becomes a Spy Shh It’s a Secret The Spy Who Never Was Masked Message The Criminal Who Saved a General Revolutionary War Timeline Glossary Selected Bibliography Websites Index 7 8 10 18 26 34 42 9 13 21 29 37 43 44 46 47 47 48
On a dark night in October 1776 an American patrol surrounded a house where a band of Tories was meet ing The patrol had been alerted to the meeting by Patriot spy Enoch Crosby who was working undercover inside the Tory group In spy terms that made him a mole During the raid Crosby was discovered hiding in a closet and was marched out in chains Just be fore being imprisoned he showed his captors a pass signed by John Jay the leader of American counterespionage Crosby passed along his secrets then he was returned to custody and told to escape on his own Hours later Crosby forced open a window and slid silently to the ground below He had gone only 50 yards 45 7 m when an American sentry shouted Halt and opened fire Crosby dodged the bullets and desper ately raced to safety The next day he was back to being a colonial shoemaker supposedly loyal to the British king DODGING DANGER
