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Ray Walker is a retired spy for the secret Culper Spy Ring. One day, he suddenly learns that his daughter has been recruited as one of its operatives, and is on her way to the place where he survived his last and most dangerous mission. Undaunted, he decides to go to Washington DC to meet with his former handler to demand an explanation as to why he was never told about the effort to recruit his offspring. Along the way, he is involved in an other-worldly event, which launches him on a voyage of self-discovery.

When the body of Maggie McFarland, an 86-year old widow, is found among the rubble of the once-famous landmark Artemis Hotel, leveled by fire nearly 70 years ago, residents of Roscoe are shocked. However, it is not the location where Maggie is found but rather the manner of her demise that has everyone puzzled. For it isn't a heart attack that has felled her; nor has she suffered a stroke or taken a fatal fall from a porch. Her life has not ended so uneventfully.

Meet David Justin, an Italian-Catholic, height-challenged youth, desperately trying to escape the bonds of sexual repression and adolescent innocence that hold him captive…in the 60s. The journey of enlightenment is both laugh-aloud funny and gut-wrenchingly emotional, as David discovers that coming-of-age is more than just a five-minute roll in the hay culminating in a thirty-second celebratory shower.

As a boy, Ray Walker is recruited by the Culper Spy Ring, the modern-day iteration of George Washington's personal spy network. Steered through early adulthood, Ray finds himself leading two lives: one as an ordinary businessman, the other as a spy for the Culper Spy Ring. Owning a travel agency provides the ideal cover for his other life as a spy. Ray is no James Bond, but in his own rugged, down-to-earth Brooklyn way, has a profound love of country, for which he is willing to risk everything.