Title:
The traitor's wife : the woman behind Benedict Arnold and the plan to betray America : a novel / Allison Pataki.
ISBN:
9781476738604
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Howard books trade paperback edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2014.
©2014
Physical Description:
xiv, 467 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Prologue. "All is lost," West Point, September 25, 1780 -- 1. "Never anger Miss Peggy," Philadelphia, May 1778 -- 2. "Delicious little heathen," Philadelphia, May 1778 -- 3. "Arnold will always be my enemy," Philadelphia, June 1778 -- 4. "The most beautiful little patriot in all Thirteen Colonies," Philadelphia, July 1778 -- 5. "Stuck in the mud," Philadelphia, November 1778 -- 6. "There is another way," Philadelphia, December 1779 -- 7. "Too far down this path," West Point, June 1780 -- 8. "The biggest fish of them all," West Point, August 1780 -- 9. "In whom can we trust," West POint, September 1780 -- Epilogue -- A note on history and sources.
Summary:
"Socialite Peggy Shippen is half Benedict Arnold's age when she seduces the war hero during his stint as military commander of Philadelphia. Blinded by his young bride's beauty and wit, Arnold does not realize that she harbors a secret: loyalty to the British. Nor does he know that she hides a past romance with the handsome British spy John André. Peggy watches as her husband, crippled from battle wounds and in debt from years of service to the colonies, grows ever more disillusioned with his hero, Washington, and the American cause. Together with her former love and her disaffected husband, Peggy hatches the plot to deliver West Point to the British and, in exchange, win fame and fortune for herself and Arnold."--Page 4 of cover.
OCLC Number:
ocn852031266
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