Scott M. Smith tells the stories of heroes and heroines who have toiled in the shadows.
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The Spy and the Seamstress
After writing two contemporary thrillers, Smith yearned to go back in time. Hamilton, the Musical, first hooked him on the Revolution - and inadvertently led to Nathan Hale.
Hale and Hamilton were both captains in the Continental Army serving in New York City in 1776. They were both the same age, both Ivy League graduates, both handsome, popular men. Yet, at the most dire moment in the war, when the Continental Army was surrounded by the full might of the British Empire, and commander-in-chief George Washington put out the call for an officer to go behind enemy lines, Nathan Hale was the only one to raise his hand.
The rest is history - Hamilton went on to greatness and Broadway; Hale went to an unmarked grave and a book by Smith, an unknown author (for now).