Books 2016: George Washington's Secret Six

Our February book for book club is George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yeager. 

From the back of the book:

When George Washington beat a hasty retreat from New York City in August 1776, many thought the American Revolution might soon be over. Instead, Washington rallied—thanks in large part to a little-known, top-secret group called the Culper Spy Ring. He realized that he couldn’t defeat the British with military might, so he recruited a sophisticated and deeply secretive intelligence network to infiltrate New York.

Drawing on extensive research, Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger have offered fascinating portraits of these spies: a reserved Quaker merchant, a tavern keeper, a brash young longshoreman, a curmudgeonly Long Island bachelor, a coffeehouse owner, and a mysterious woman. Long unrecognized, the secret six are finally receiving their due among the pantheon of American heroes.

The book was pretty straight-forward. The introduction explains where the information comes from and then the story begins. The story was more-or-less chronological, which I appreciated. It can get a little hard to keep track of people when the timeline jumps around like some other books of this nature. It is an interesting story, although, it did seem a little thin in a few places. By that I mean, it didn't seem really clear that the authors were sure what the significance of certain events really were in comparison to the larger backdrop of the Revolution. It was a pretty easy read though and had some fun information in it.