Borders bookstore hosted this event in 2008. Its about 30 minutes. Thank you for coming. This is a hometown book for you washingtonians. Writing about spies is a tricky business. The undergoing of any spy work is full of murky doings. Making matters much worse in the case of this story was the point that these were all accounts muttled by exaggeration, misdirection, and lies, official and unofficial. That made tracking the truth a very slippery business. The history of british spies working in america. Friends spying on friends is a story a lot of people wanted to forget. Both countries wanted to suppress. So its a particularly tangled mess. In working on this book i was frequently reminded of a line of one of my favorite westerns, the man who shot valense. In the movie, they asked the newspaper editor if the truth of what happened would ever come out. He said, no, sir, this is the west when the legend becomes fact print the legend. My experience with intelligence reports, theyre the s