He was the ugliest, most evil-looking man I’d ever seen.

He glared up at me from the poster, his outline glistening as the ink dried, making him seem more alive and threatening. I held him out at arm’s length to stop him from creasing….

COCKBURN

ESCAPED
from our NEW PRISON at CLERKENWELL, the 14th day of MAY.
The Public is ADVISED that this Man IS VERY
DANGEROUS!

The notorious inhabitants of London’s criminal underworld are all in a day’s work for Mog, who prints their WANTED posters. But then a real-life meeting with a genuine convict entangles Mog in a secret scheme that has all the crooks of the city at one another’s throats. An ingenious theft, a series of mistaken identities, and a hunt for a murderer all connect to a ship just docked from India, and Mog’s own mysterious past…. This dazzling Dickensian adventure will keep readers in heart-pounding suspense to the very end.