This book is always marketed as if for children and it certainly is suitable for any child from about ten or eleven, I’d say. But Smith knows documents are worth money and he’s determined to find out what it says… Running for fear that he will be caught and accused of this much worse crime, Smith has to wait to find out what he managed to steal – a document, clearly official, but that’s as much as he can tell since he can’t read. But one day Smith picks the pocket of an elderly man and as he runs away, he sees the man being attacked and killed. Smith is a twelve-year old pickpocket surviving by his wits in the London of the 18th century. A rat was like a snail beside Smith, and the most his thousand victims ever got of him was the powerful whiff of his passing and a cold draught in their dexterously emptied pockets.
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