About the Author

Thomas B. Allen is the author of the award-winning book, George Washington, Spymaster- How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War. He is the co-author with Norman Polmar of Spy Book- The Encyclopedia of Espionage; Code-name Downfall; and Merchants of Treason, a report on modern espionage. He is also the co-author, with Paul Dickson, of The Bonus Army. Tom Allen lives in Bethesda, Maryland. You can visit him on the Web at www.tballen.com.

Carla Bauer is a woodcut illustrator whose work has been exhibited in the National Academy of Design. She lives in New York City.

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