Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy & Big Bad Ironclad - Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales “tell the thrilling, shocking, gruesome, and TRUE stories of American history” in a riotous new series. One Dead Spy (Amulet, $12.95) introduces Nathan Hale (yes, his name is the same as the author’s), whose famous words “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country” earn him a place in U.S. history books. After he utters this very phrase from the gallows, in fact, a giant history book swallows him up. Hale, the hangman, and a British soldier are transported through time and experience the past, present, and future. Readers follow Hale from his youth and learn about both how he became a spy and the important events leading up to the American War of Independence. In Nathan and company’s second adventure, Big Bad Ironclad! (Amulet, $12.95), it’s the Civil War and the North and South are competing to make the best iron-covered warship. Both novels are full of adventure and laced with humor. Readers will find out what happens next in two upcoming volumes, due out in the summer of 2013. Ages 10-13. HWP