[Gutenberg 62181] • Arnold's Tempter

**"For good historic basis, quick action and fine sentiment the story has received high praise, and the author is credited with the ability to compete with those who would write the 'great American novel.'" -The Bookseller**

In 1908, Benjamin Freeman Comfort published the great historical novel "Arnold's Tempter," of the temptation of Benedict Arnold, by Roderick Barclugh, the secret agent of George III.

This book was the work of seven years of careful writing and revision, every situation being consistent with revolutionary history. Its force lies in the plot and treatment unhampered by moralizing or ineffective mock heroics. Those who are interested in novels of American history will find pleasure and profit in "Arnold's Tempter," by Benjamin F. Comfort, whose carefully written thriller gives stirring and vivid pictures of Colonial days.

This book will likely be of interest to those fans of Turn: Washington's Spies, an American period drama television series based on Alexander Rose's book Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring (2007), a history of the Culper Ring. The series debuted on AMC on April 6, 2014.

Turn: Washington's Spies was renewed for a fourth and final 10-episode season, which had a two-hour premiere on June 17, 2017.

Arnold features prominently in Turn where after feeling slighted he is tempted to become a traitor and switch sides to join the British efforts against America.