title: The traitor and the spy: Benedict Arnold and John Andre
author:  James Thomas Flexner 
description: A book about the American Revolution with Benedict Arnold and John Andre' and a romantic plot that contains so much authentic drama as this tale of treachery.
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  _In memory of Rick Beeston_
  
  > ‘The Friends _n._ General slang for members of an intelligence service;
  > specifically British slang for members of the Secret Intelligence Service,
  > or MI6.’
  
  > > ‘If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friends,
  > I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. Such a choice may
  > scandalise the modern reader, and he may stretch out his patriotic hand to
  > the telephone at once and ring up the police. It would not have shocked
  > Dante, though. Dante places Brutus and Cassius in the lowest circle of Hell
  > because they had chosen to betray their friend Julius Caesar rather than
  > their country Rome.’
  
  > E. M. Forster, 1938
  
  Contents
  
  Preface
  
  Introduction
  
  1 Apprentice Spy
  
  2 Section V
  
  3 Otto and Sonny
  
  4 Boo, Boo, Baby, I’m a Spy
  
  5 Three Young Spies
  
  6 The German Defector
  
  7 The Soviet Defector
  
  8 Rising Stars
  
  9 Stormy Seas
  
  10 Homer’s Odyssey
  
  11 Peach
  
  12 The Robber Barons
  
  13 The Third Man