Desoto, Georgia is a quiet, out of-the-way place - a town where nothing of real significance ever seems to happen. At least not until a local farm boy has an unlikely encounter with a Russian spy.With the Cuban Missile Crisis looming, seventeen-year-old Haskell Hand is going through a rough patch. He's grieving the death of his mother and contending with his father's ever-worsening alcohol addiction. And if that weren't enough, he's embroiled in a feud with his twi...