A simple boy with an amazing gift. A promise to a dying man. And a nation that wants to believe. Can a twelve year old boy be the hero his country needs? David Donald is a simple boy with an amazing bowling arm. Hes a spinner who becomes the stuff of legend. His guardian, Uncle Michael, is also a spinner a great Australian bullshit artist, a shyster and mythmaker. Its between the wars. Its the glory days of cricket. Together, David and Michael will rout the English and reveal more than a little about the shaping of the Australian psyche.