The spy: a tale of the neutral ground. By: J. F. Cooper (Complete in one volume).: The Spy: a Tale of the Neutral Ground was James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, published in 1821.

The Spy: a Tale of the Neutral Ground was James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, published in 1821. This was the earliest United States novel to win wide and permanent fame and may be said to have begun the type of romance which dominated U.S. fiction for 30 years.The action takes place during the American Revolution. The share of historical fact in the story is not large, but the action takes place so near to great events that the characters are all invested with something of the dusky ligh...