The Year of the Hangman is a young adult alternate history novel written by Gary Blackwood and published in 2002.

He is also informed that his mother is behind his kidnapping, having sent a letter to his uncle, requesting that Creighton be raised in the Colonies under his guidance so that he may become a better person.

Creighton pretends to be an indentured to avoid being ransomed, earning the sympathy and friendship of Peter, a private in the rebel army.

Creighton meets Sophie Doucet, a housemaid who is working for Franklin, who runs a print shop behind the house.

Creighton secretly prints out a single sheet for himself and takes it with him, planning to share his newfound information with his uncle.

While discussing politics, the men talk about the “Indian Problem,” and how it is only a matter of time before New Orleans is attacked.

It is revealed that Carolina, the British supplied the Cherokee Natives with muskets, and told them that the Americans were their enemy.

One of the men mentions that they would have been caught off the guard and wiped out, but a British officer came to warn the colonists about the impending attack.

He becomes disillusioned from the fact that he had always been told his father died gloriously in battle, serving the British - not as (in Creighton's eyes) a hanged traitor.

Creighton manages to tackle one of the men to the ground but is forced to let him go in order to help Sophie and Franklin save the printing types.

Arnold reveals a new plot to Creighton, Peter, and Franklin: he plans to feign defection to the British and feed them false information while spying on them.

Gower attempts to tamper with Arnold's pistol prior to the fight by coating the gun's lock with resin to prevent ignition.

Creighton gives him a stolen British corporal's uniform that he obtained on the way out of the town, which he dons in order to gain access into the fort's prison.