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Lucia St. Clair Robson's novel Shadow Patriots features the Culper Ring. The TV series White Collar contains an episode, "Identity Crisis", whose plot revolves around the modern-day descendants of the Culper Spies. The Culper Ring is featured in Brad Meltzer's trilogy of books including The Inner Circle, The Fifth Assassin, and The President's ...
The Fifth Assassin is a 2013 novel written by Brad Meltzer that follows the adventures of archivist Beecher White as he discovers a connection linking the four successful presidential assassins with a modern-day killer who is recreating their crimes.
Brad Meltzer (born April 1, 1970) is an American novelist, non-fiction writer, TV show creator, and comic book author. His novels touch on the political thriller, legal thriller and conspiracy fiction genres, while he has also written superhero comics for DC Comics, and periodically Marvel Comics, and a series of short biographies of prominent people for young readers.
Brad and team look into the history and the people involved in the Culper Spy Ring – a covert team of ordinary citizens; shopkeepers, tavern owners and housewives – who played a vital role in helping save the United States by spying on the British during the Revolutionary War, over 200 years ago.
They form an unlikely group of spies called the Culper Ring, which eventually helps to turn the tide during the American Revolutionary War. [3] The series begins in October 1776, shortly after British victories recapture Long Island and the Port of New York for the Crown, and leave General George Washington's army in dire straits. The first ...
It tells of the Culper Ring, a group of George Washington's spies operating out of New York City during the Revolution. The story includes familiar names—Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benedict Arnold, Peggy Shippen—and one unfamiliar number, the mysterious Spy 355. 355 was the Culpers' code for "lady," and after 225 years she remains a ...
Turn: Washington's Spies [1] (stylized as TURŠ: Washington's Spies) is an American period drama television series developed by Craig Silverstein and based on Alexander Rose’s book Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring (2007), [2] a history of the Culper Ring. [3] The series aired on AMC from April 6, 2014, [4] through ...
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring (2006) is a history book by Alexander Rose, [1] based on the stories of four real-life childhood friends who formed the Culper spy ring that affected the course of the Revolutionary War.