Witty and well-researched, this comic spins the tale of one spy in the American Revolution, already caught and condemned to death by hanging. But this spy, Nathan Hale (no relation to the author of the same name) is granted a strange power: to see backwards and forwards in the tapestry of American history. Like Scheherazade, he delays the moment of his death by promising his hangsman one more story, one more story, one more story...