This book is an interesting book. It gives many ways that spycraft, deception, and subterfuge were used during the Revolutionary War. It provides lots of information. It is a topic that is not much focused on, and therefore, provides information that will be new to almost everyone. The book itself is not exceptionally weel written. There are many mistakes (e.g. missing words, wrong tense usage, etc.). The book is not written as a story highlighting spycraft. Instead it is organized by category. I found this to be somewhat disjointed, but interesting nonetheless. However, it is still worth reading. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the Revolutionary War, or spycraft. ( )

The topic sounds absolutely fascinating, especially to an early American history geek such as myself. Unfortunately, the writing is terrible and the overall structure of the book makes very little sense. The author clearly knows the subject extraordinarily well and has the research to back it up, but the writing just does not stand up. The other reviewer of the book stated that it sounds like a rough first draft of a manuscript, I would agree whole-heartedly with that assessment. ( )

This book reads like a first draft, the one where the author pulls together all his (considerable) research but has yet to write the part of the text that puts things in context and tells a compelling story. A pity, because I got the sense that there's some good stuff hiding in there. ( )