Table of Contents
Prologue: The Road to Morristown ix
Part 1 Winter
Chapter 1 On the Frozen Hudson River 2
Chapter 2 General in Winter 7
Chapter 3 General Simcoe's Affront 18
Chapter 4 Scott and Zelda 23
Chapter 5 Log House City 28
Chapter 6 The Plot 37
Chapter 7 Sacricide 42
Chapter 8 The Pent-Up General 53
Chapter 9 The Hail Mary General 59
Chapter 10 James Benedict Bond 63
Chapter 11 The Most Daring Exploit 69
Chapter 12 The Seeds of Mutiny 74
Chapter 13 The Trial of Benedict Arnold 81
Chapter 14 Valley Forge 87
Chapter 15 The Manic-Depressive 95
Chapter 16 Preparing to Kidnap George Washington 99
Chapter 17 Mr. Moore's Unspeakable Treason 103
Chapter 18 He Was but a Man 106
Chapter 19 The Diversion 112
Chapter 20 Desperate Measures 118
Chapter 21 The Coldest Night 121
Chapter 22 The Indispensable Man 124
Chapter 23 The Black Hussars 136
Chapter 24 The Insomniac General 139
Chapter 25 The Second Diversion 143
Chapter 26 Simcoe's Payback 145
Chapter 27 George Washington's Fate 148
Interlude 153
Part 2 Spring and Summer
Chapter 28 The Circumspect General 155
Chapter 29 The Stressed-Out Family Man 159
Chapter 30 Some Violent Convulsion 162
Chapter 31 The Volcano Explodes 166
Chapter 32 Bonnie and Clyde 171
Chapter 33 The Darkest Hour 174
Chapter 34 The French Component 178
Chapter 35 Americans Fight Like Bulldogs 182
Chapter 36 The Neurotic Returns 186
Chapter 37 Benedict Arnold's Final Play 192
Chapter 38 The Kidnapping of Benedict Arnold 206
Chapter 39 Morristown 209
Epilogue 214
Endnotes 216
Bibliography 229
Index 234
