Brief description:
From the dust jacket:
ln this, the fourth of her “Spy” books, the author has chosen a historical episode from the Revolutionary War. lt involves a real spy—Major André. The fictional hero, Jock Fraser, is given an important part in his apprehension.
All the major events in the book are historically accurate, and all of the military officers really were on the scene, as the book describes. The only fictional characters involved in this exciting story are Jock, his gunsmith father, their family, and a few
friends.
Jock has come to know Major André and to like him. Readers of A Spy in Old West Point will sympathize with Jock’s dilemma: if he helps Maior André escape, he will collect enough money to fulfill his own ambitions and free his father from debt; but to help André, Jock will have to violate what he knows to be his patriotic duty.
A Spy in Old West Point is, first of all, an engrossing story. It is also an excellent way of absorbing information about an important episode in American history, and of learning many fascinating facts about guns and gunmaking.
ln this, the fourth of her “Spy” books, the author has chosen a historical episode from the Revolutionary War. lt involves a real spy—Major André. The fictional hero, Jock Fraser, is given an important part in his apprehension.
All the major events in the book are historically accurate, and all of the military officers really were on the scene, as the book describes. The only fictional characters involved in this exciting story are Jock, his gunsmith father, their family, and a few
friends.
Jock has come to know Major André and to like him. Readers of A Spy in Old West Point will sympathize with Jock’s dilemma: if he helps Maior André escape, he will collect enough money to fulfill his own ambitions and free his father from debt; but to help André, Jock will have to violate what he knows to be his patriotic duty.
A Spy in Old West Point is, first of all, an engrossing story. It is also an excellent way of absorbing information about an important episode in American history, and of learning many fascinating facts about guns and gunmaking.
Publication
Rand, McNally Co,(1965), 1st,Hdbk,DJ,,VG, ex Lib