The TV series, TURN, and the novel, IF THIS BE TREASON, both are set during America’s Revolutionary War. Both feature America’s General Benedict Arnold, his wife Peggy, her romantic interest, Britain’s Major John André, George Washington, and Washington’s spies. Washington’s spies, the Culper Ring, provide invaluable intelligence to Washington, including their uncovering of the conspiracy by the Arnolds and André to deliver America’s fort at West Point into the hands of the British enemy. American patriots immediately branded Arnold’s defection as treason. Contrarily, the British – and Americans still loyal to King George -- saw Arnold as being the true patriot, a reformed rebel returning to the side of his British brethren and his ancestral England. These diametrically opposed characterizations of Arnold’s behavior exemplify the conflicting allegiances prevalent in late18th Century America – i.e. American patriots loyal to their emergent nation versus American Tories loyal to their Motherland – and personify the maxim that one man’s traitor is another man’s patriot. The uncovering of the Arnold-Arnold-Andre West Point scheme not only broaches the proposition that treason might be in the eye of the beholder, it leaves the fate of Peggy and her two men trembling in the balance. Beyond the abstract suggestion that treason might be in the eye of the beholder, IF THIS BE TREASON also spotlights the personal interplay among its characters: Benedict Arnold, Peggy Arnold, John André, General Washington, and the Culper spies.