The traitor's wife : a novel the woman behind Benedict Arnold and the plan to betray America
"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...
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New York :
Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.,
2014.
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| Edition: | First Howard books trade paperback edition. |
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Table of 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.
