Sunday, March 1, 2026

George Washington's Secret Spy War by John A. Nagy

 

3/10

This book is very poorly written. It is very thoroughly researched, but someone (ideally the editor?) needs to tell the author that you can't just regurgitate and barf out every minute detail you have ever researched and think it will come out as an interesting story that people can follow. The info at the very beginning about Washington's involvement in the French and Indian War was fairly interesting. I bumped it to 2 stars as an acknowledgement of the vast amount of research performed and increased it up to a 3 because he actually finally presents a coherent and interesting story in the last few chapters and in the conclusion. My advice to anyone thinking of reading this would be to only read the final few "Deception Battle Plan" chapters and the "Conclusion" chapter. The rest is a huge waste of time.