One Dead Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale

Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Series

Author: Nathan Hale

Book 1 in the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series

Pages: 128

Published: 2012

Age: 8+

Nathan Hale, the author's coincidentally historical namesake, was America's first spy, a Revolutionary War hero who famously said "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" before being hanged by the British. In the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales series, author Nathan Hale channels his namesake to present history's roughest, toughest, and craziest stories in the graphic novel format.

One Dead Spy tackles the story of Hale himself, who was an officer and spy for the American rebels during the Revolutionary War. Author Hale highlights the unusual, gruesome, and just plain unbelievable truth of historical Nathan Hale—from his early unlucky days at Yale to his later unlucky days as an officer—and America during the Revolutionary War.

About the Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Series

Reading age: 8+ years

"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."

These are the famous last words of Nathan Hale, a spy for the American rebels in the Revolutionary War.

But who was Nathan Hale? And how did the rebels defeat an army that was bigger, better, stronger and more heavily armed than they were? Find the answers to these questions, as well as many more stories of ingenuity, close calls with danger, and acts of heroism in Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales – a graphic novel series for middle-grade readers dedicated to telling the most thrilling, shocking, gruesome, and TRUE stories of American history. Read them all—if you dare!