General Washington's Continental Army was beaten and demoralized as they encamped at Valley Forge. Nobody knew this better than Brigadier Henry Nichols, a man with the cunning and ambition to end the American dream of independence. While Nichols, in league with a mercenary criminal, embarks on a secret mission to end the Revolution once and for all, Washington and his confidential correspondents begin a desperate race to uncover the conspiracy before it's too late