It's hard to imagine that at one point in history, there was no such thing as tactical espionage. Nothing to inspire an entire genre of entertainment that was about to be contained in the form of books, movies, or video games. As pretty much everything in this world, there has to be a beginning. A place called Black Tom Island, in New York, right around the time of the first World War, it's where it all started. What follows is a fictionalized version of true events that occurred then and there, and managed to change the world forever.