Chase through the streets of Elizabethan London in this thrilling adventure by number one bestselling author Anthony Horowitz London is dirty distant & dangerous but that's where orphan Tom Falconer is heading & he's got a whole assortment of vicious criminals hot on his heels Tom is helpless & alone until he meets Moll Cutpurse a thirteen-year-old pickpocket Together they find themselves chased across the city by the murderous Ratsey But it's only on the first night of a new play
- The Devil & his Boy
- that Tom realizes that the fate of the Queen & indeed the entire country rests in his hand