Yankee Doodle Spies

 In the shadowed halls of Charleston’s grand King Street mansion, Rebecca Brewton Motte moved with quiet resolve.  This grande dame of South...

 This edition of Yankee Doodle Spies has been a long time coming—one of the true “bad boys” and “bad asses” of the American Revolutionary Wa...

In the spring of 1780, the American cause in the South hung by a thread. British forces under Sir Henry Clinton descended on Charleston like...

Avellina Balestri’s Kingdom of Wolves plunges into the 1777 Saratoga Campaign, the decisive turning point of the American Revolutionary War...

The most famous espionage challenge faced by the fledgling United States was not posed by a scheming, knowledgeable practitioner of the dark...

A key historical figure in my upcoming novel, The South Spy , was ironically a northerner who made his career in the South. A New Englander ...

This special Presidents Day Yankee Doodle Spies post profiles The Magnificent Seven.  No, not the rogues in the iconic 1960 John Sturges fil...