NINE DAYS

Before the legend was carved in stone, there was a schoolteacher with a hollow mission. In the autumn of 1776, Nathan Hale, fueled by a desperate sense of duty and his friendship with a young Benjamin Tallmadge, volunteered to step behind enemy lines in Manhattan. He was an amateur in a world of professional shadows, a spy with no network and no code. This is a chronological descent into the nine days that transformed an idealistic Yale graduate into America’s first martyr. From the silent crossing of the Sound to the finality of the gallows, Nine Days deconstructs the fatal errors of the martyr and the heavy silence that followed his death—a silence that forced the Architect to design a new way of war.