Chase through the streets of Elizabethan London in this thrilling adventure by the acclaimed author, Anthony Horowitz. London is dirty, distant, and dangerous... but that's where the orphan Tom Falconer is headed. He has a whole batch of evil criminals on his tail. Tom is helpless and alone until he meets Moll Cutpurse, a thirteen-year-old pickpocket. Together, they are hunted all over the city by the murderous Ratsey. But it's only on the night of the premiere of a new play – The Devil and his Boy – that Tom realizes the fate of the Queen and the entire country is in his hands.