Agent 355

This was a great, very short and very interesting historical fiction read!  My favorite topic:  the Revolutionary War.  But this story took place in New York which is the part of the country that I know much less about,  And the author did not romanticize the story.  She told what she believed happened according to the records that she had examined.  But she told it with imagination....What would Agent 355 have experienced?  I highly recommend this audible original!

The Wikipedia article about agent 355 gives many possible names of women who could have been agent 355 in the very real Culper Ring.  Here is what Wikipedia says:

Agent 355 (died after 1780) was the code name of a female spy during the American Revolution, part of the Culper Ring. Agent 355 was one of the first spies for the United States, but her real identity is unknown.^[1] The number, 355, could be de-crypted from the system the Culper Ring used to mean "lady."^[2]

The author's take is that Agent 355 was a young woman who lived in an affluent home in New York that was hosting a British Officer.  The young woman had access to parties and other events in which the British officers were entertained.  And she used that access to gather information that she passed on to the Continental Army as a spy.  She fell in love with a man who was also a part of the Culper Ring and while she was captured for her part in the espionage, the man that she loved escaped being identified.

Do not read further if you plan to listen to the story!

They married and she was pregnant when she was captured.  She gave birth to a boy child on the TERRIBLE ship used to store prisoners.  She managed to smuggle her son out of the ship, but she did not escape and died while captive.  The son was raised by his father.  It is a good story.