Adventure Intrigue Thievery Young Timothy Delvan, an ordinary, modern American thirteen-year-old, finds himself thrust into extraordinary circumstances when he follows a stranger smelling of gin and shoe polish through a very singular door in London. Therein lies a world in which robbery is just another institution, London is governed by a megalomaniacal Lord Mayor, and America exists only as a prison colony. Robbers, policemen, and Irishmen vie for power as Timothy struggles to decide who is a friend and who would just as soon see him dancing the Tyburn jig. Will Timothy ever find his way...