Dark Eagle: Six Crucial Years in the Life of Benedict Arnold

by Gene Ligotti

He was our greatest patriot and most beloved hero and today his name is synonymous with treason. What caused such a complete turnabout? What factors could radically change a man's heart and soul? This, the last in the trilogy, is that story. The story of the years that made Benedict Arnold a revered patriot-hero and those that created the despised traitor.

444 pages, Paperback

First published September 28, 2000

About the author

Gene Ligotti was educated at Adelphi University and received his doctorate from New York University. After coming down with Rheumatoid Arthritis, he had to give up his successful thirty year practice of dentistry in Huntington, NY. He began writing as just something to do, but it soon became a driving force. As a freelance writer he wrote a monthly column about the history of the villages in the Catskill Mountains and of the romantic Hudson River. His acclaimed articles on Dentistry have been printed in various Dental Journals. Initially a writer of American History novels, Gene Ligotti has been writing suspense thrillers for many years starting with the much acclaimed, The Third Woman. Ligotti lives in Smithtown, New York with his wife Corbina.