The Traitor - Hardcover

Sherman, Dan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1556110006 ISBN 13: 9781556110009

Publisher: Donald I. Fine, 1987

Synopsis

In a quiet room in the White Swan Inn, sunlight slowly breaks through the curtains revealing two young lovers--an American seamstress and an English Officer. They have been brutally, ritualistically murdered in their sleep. It’s a grisly scene that can only mean one thing: there’s a traitor within the American Revolution. The year is 1779. General Washington, struggling to keep his army together, sends his best spymaster, Matty Grove, to investigate the killings. As Matty follows the trail of clues, he comes up against more questions. Who gave the killer his orders? How much does the mole know of the Revolution’s plans? Is this treason a matter of principle or simply profit? With THE TRAITOR, author Dan Sherman brings the political and economic maneuverings of the Revolution into vivid detail. The rising pace and complex characters in this stunning work of historical fiction will have history buffs and fans of modern espionage alike clamoring for more.

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About the Author

Dan Sherman has written a handful of popular thrillers, starting with such near-contemporary successes as The White Mandarin (1982, set in China from 1949 through the 1960s) and The Prince of Berlin (1983, starting at the end of World War II and continuing on into the 1960s) and then moving backward through history to the era of World War I (The Man Who Loved Mata Hari, 1985) and then to the period of the American Revolution (The Traitor, 1987), about the discovery of a mole within the highest command levels of George Washington’s army of revolution. His other novels include The Mole, Riddle, Swann, and King Jaguar.

From Publishers Weekly

Author of eight previous novels (including The Man Who Loved Mata Hari, Sherman turns his considerable skill with espionage fiction to the American Revolution with extremely interesting results. Set in 1779, when the outcome of the war is still in doubt, the novel creates the same climate of intrigue and conspiracy one expects from a modern-day novel of espionage. Two lovers are found brutally murdered in their bed, victims of a seemingly ritualistic killing. Matty Grove, General Washington's most effective agent-assassin, is ordered to find the murderer and, more importantly, the man behind the slayings, who is surely a traitor to the Revolution. Grove, a loner who is feared on both sides of the conflict, quickly realizes that the traitor may well be among those closest to the rebel cause. Out of this hunt, Sherman fashions a fascinating portrait of the political and economic intrigues behind the Revolution, a portrait quite at odds with storybook history but an artfully constructed and most satisfying read.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Donald I. Fine
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 1556110006
• ISBN 13: 9781556110009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 265